Usury is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.
You can make 24 anagrams from letters in usury (rsuuy).
1275-1325; Middle English usurie Medieval Latin ūsūria (compare Latin ūsūra), equivalent to Latin ūs(us) (see use) + -ūr(a) -ure + -ia
You have been lending money on usury too, and on a bad security. A careful reading of this letter does not reveal a positive approval of usury. Charlemagne, in France, forbid the taking of usury either by priests or laity. His words are to be taken literally; all that He promises He gives with usury. Thus we see that the divell is the planter, and the father of usury. She wanted to pay him with usury for his cool, hard disdain. usury makes it possible for many to live upon incomes from their property. On January 29, Francis referred to usury as “a dramatic social ill.” Biblical and Islamic bans on "usury" (lending money at interest) strike most modern people as pretty silly. There's a reason for the biblical bans on usury: in a zero-growth world, lending money at interest is quite likely to ruin people.Examples for usury