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What does usurer mean?

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Noun
  1. A person who loans money to others and charges interest, particularly at an illegal, exorbitant, or unfair rate.
  2. (rare) Specifically, a male usurer.
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Interest paid could be reclaimed, not only from the usurer but from his heirs.
This is the sin of the usurer, the bodger, and the tyrannous landlord, and of this bad trinity the last is the worst.
The usurer will go on hanging the cozener as long as we have a society based, in part, on usury.
Appeal to the higher powers if you dare, and I'll make you repent it, you usurer!
If you lend money to any of my people, to any poor man among you, you must not play the usurer with him: you must not demand interest from him.
We have already stated that Fardorougha was not only an extortioner, but a usurer.

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