All 6 Uses of
usury
in
The Idiot
- Ptitsin, get the money, you gay usurer!†
Chpt 1.10
- The only important thing, in my eyes, is that you should not be going there simply for the pleasure of spending your evening in such company—cocottes, generals, usurers!†
Chpt 1.12
- An old woman who had been robbed of five hundred roubles, her all, by some rogue of a usurer, besought him to take up her case, instead of which he defended the usurer himself, a Jew named Zeidler, because this Jew promised to give him fifty roubles….†
Chpt 2.2 *
- An old woman who had been robbed of five hundred roubles, her all, by some rogue of a usurer, besought him to take up her case, instead of which he defended the usurer himself, a Jew named Zeidler, because this Jew promised to give him fifty roubles….†
Chpt 2.2
- "Father is a drunkard and a thief; I am a beggar, and the husband of my sister is a usurer," continued Gania, bitterly.†
Chpt 4.1
- That same husband of your sister, the usurer—†
Chpt 4.1
Definition:
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(usury) lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest