Both Uses
usury
in
Jane Eyre
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- As to her money, she first secreted it in odd corners, wrapped in a rag or an old curl-paper; but some of these hoards having been discovered by the housemaid, Eliza, fearful of one day losing her valued treasure, consented to intrust it to her mother, at a usurious rate of interest — fifty or sixty per cent.; which interest she exacted every quarter, keeping her accounts in a little book with anxious accuracy.†
p. 36.9
- Do you think I am a Jew-usurer, seeking good investment in land?†
p. 302.2 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(usury) lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)