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What does usance mean?

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Noun
  1. The length of time permitted for the payment of a bill of exchange.
  2. Use.
  3. Customary or habitual usage.
  4. The interest paid on a borrowed sum, usury.
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It follows that the problem could arise only in the case of bills payable on demand, or where a bill payable at another usance is discharge before its maturity.
The effect of usance of plant oestrogens from kudzu, puerarin isoflavones, which are unique in Kudzu, would be much less invasive than traditional therapies for the menopause because of its natural origin.
I'll lend no money gratis and bring down the rate of usance.
He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice.
I have not wanted good words, and exceeding kind and regardful usance.
The network becomes a tool which may, by ordinary usance, oblige users to go in the territory outside.

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