Definitions for usurer

usurer u·su·rer

Spelling: [yoo-zher-er]
IPA: /ˈyu ʒər ər/

Usurer is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 41 anagrams from letters in usurer (errsuu).

Definitions for usurer

noun

  1. a person who lends money and charges interest, especially at an exorbitant or unlawful rate; moneylender.
  2. Obsolete. a person who lends money at interest.

Origin of usurer

1250-1300; Middle English Anglo-French Medieval Latin ūsūrārius, equivalent to ūsūr(ia) usury + Latin -ārius -ary

Examples for usurer

The voluntary sacrifice of others to the usurer does not make his gains just.

He had been plundered by every usurer in the Levant, and in turn had taken them in.

They suffered not an usurer to be witnesse in matters of Law.

If I were a usurer I could not put out money to a better advantage.

Interest paid could be reclaimed, not only from the usurer but from his heirs.

Appeal to the higher powers if you dare, and I'll make you repent it, you usurer!

I thought perhaps there was some usurer, whom you had heard of, who could let me have the money.

A mere hint of encouragement to the usurer came from Calvin.

Rooney appears to be a money-lender, a usurer—most probably a Jew.

He was a usurer, though he could be very liberal when his policy demanded.

Word Value for usurer
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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