Both Uses of
usury
in
Dubliners
- He had begun life as an obscure financier by lending small sums of money to workmen at usurious interest.†
Chpt 14 *
- Though he had never embraced more than the Jewish ethical code, his fellow-Catholics, whenever they had smarted in person or by proxy under his exactions, spoke of him bitterly as an Irish Jew and an illiterate, and saw divine disapproval of usury made manifest through the person of his idiot son.†
Chpt 14
Definition:
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(usury) lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest