Definition of "usurer" []

• One who lends money at interest, especially at an exorbitant or unlawfully high rate. (noun)

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• "A man may be a first-rate soldier, doctor, banker -- as we call the usurer now-a-days -- or brewer, orator, anything that leads up to a figure-head, and prove a foolish fellow if you sound him."
• "A man may be a first-rate soldier, doctor, banker -- as we call the usurer now-a"
• "That the usurer is the greatest Sabbath – breaker, because his plough goeth every Sunday."