Definitions for usurers

usurers u·su·rer

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

Usurers is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in usurers (errssuu).

Definitions for usurers

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 usurers

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

Examples for usurers

During the thirteenth century the severities against the usurers were not relaxed.

The usurers received their hold on the state in a time of the greatest need.

The great debts of the nations have brought all mankind into subjection to the usurers.

Thieves, extortionists, usurers—and in the name of all the virtues!

These public bonds are the golden opportunity of the usurers.

There was an effort to limit the usurers' privileges to the war and one year after its close.

He but yields himself as a tool to the usurers to continue their loans.

usurers were the open representatives of flagrant covetousness in all the ages.

That usurers should have orange-tawney bonnets, because they do Judaize.

At the advent of the three usurers a new impulse seized the people.

Word Value for usurers
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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