Definitions for usances

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usances us·ance

Spelling: [yoo-zuh ns]

IPA: /ˈyu zəns/

Usances is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 153 anagrams from letters in usances (acenssu).

Definitions for usances

noun

1. Commerce. a length of time, exclusive of days of grace and varying in different places, allowed by custom or usage for the payment of foreign bills of exchange.
2. Economics. the income of benefits of every kind derived from the ownership of wealth.
3. Archaic. use. custom; habit.
4. Obsolete. usury.

Origin of usances

1350-1400; Middle English usaunce Old French usance, probably Medieval Latin ūsantia, derivative of Latin ūsant- (stem of ūsāns), present participle of ūsāre to use; s

Examples for usances

But 'tis to much purpose to evade it; the common custom and usance of life will have it so.

He knew that a debt to folly bears no grace, and was ready with his principal and usance.

He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice.

The term "usance" is sometimes employed to express the period of running in foreign bills.

I'll lend no money gratis and bring down the rate of usance.