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usuriousness

usuriousness noun: the quality of being usurious.

Noun

usuriousness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being usurious.
    • The clerk consented to come out when he perceived that he was being asked for by an old lady who was too infirm to walk; after which the Grandmother began to upbraid him at length, and with great vehemence, for his alleged usuriousness, and to bargain with him in a mixture of Russian, French, and...1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter XII, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/XII)

Origin of usuriousness

From usurious + -ness.

Questions about usuriousness

What does usuriousness mean?
Usuriousness means the quality of being usurious.
What part of speech is usuriousness?
Usuriousness is a noun.

Words near usuriousness in the dictionary

  1. usurial
  2. usuries
  3. usuring
  4. usurious
  5. usuriously
  6. usuriousness
  7. usurous
  8. usurously
  9. usurp
  10. usurpability
  11. usurpable

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