usurer

At the end of ten years everything was paid off, everything, the 'usurer' 's charges and the accumulation of superimposed interest.

Unfortunately, Antonio's money is currently tied up in shipping ventures, but because he desperately wants to help his dear friend, he goes to the 'usurer' Shylock to borrow the funds.

The merchant boasted to him: ‘After the war between France and Germany I was a 'usurer' and with extorting, cozening, forfeiting and tricks belonging under brokery, I filled the gaols with bankrupts in a year.’

The biblical parable of the talents was the central interpretative puzzle in this regard since it appears to advocate usury and, worse still, the careful preserver loses all and the 'usurer' gains more.

'Usurers' haggle in the village square.

The nation remains at the mercy of banking 'usurers' .

All evils, they repeat again and again, are caused by the erroneous teachings of the ‘dismal science’ of economics and the ‘credit monopoly’ of the bankers and 'usurers' .

If you oblige many men to be money-lenders, some will assuredly be 'usurers' .

Where the actual producers fall prey to 'usurers' and merchants, because of their lack of market power, they are reduced to a subsistence existence and forced to part with the surplus product.

In the West the taking of usury was prohibited to both the clergy and the laity in the ninth century, and the sanctions against 'usurers' were intensified by a series of conciliar decrees between 1179 and 1311.

Blasphemers, sodomites, and 'usurers' are punished here by the blistering heat.

He governed Sardinia, expelling 'usurers' and restricting the demands made on the Sardinians for the upkeep of himself and his staff.