What is "usurer"

Usage examples of "usurer".

Kareski appeared before the Nazis as if sent by central casting: the caricature of the stage Jew, a crooked usurer, as zealous as any medieval rabbi to keep the Jews apart from unbelieving humankind, and at the head of a brownshirted emigrationist movement.

Son of a whore, pot of excrement, liar, thief, hypocrite trimmer and counterfeiter, adulterer, glutton, coward, voluptuary, sodomite, usurer, simoniac, necromancer, sower of discord, cheat!

But when the soul of Mike rises to the sublime conception of a loan of five pounds he dismisses the old-fashioned usurer, and hies him to one of the branch banks which abound in every petty townlet in Western and Southern Ireland.

Among the reforms he accomplished were some regulations relating to the residence of bishops and some rules for the bridling of Jews, usurers, prostitutes, players and mountebanks.

At the same time, the abbot of Doncaster sued up the payment of certain moneys, which the earl, whose revenue ran a losing race with his hospitality, had borrowed at sundry times of the said abbot: for the abbots and the bishops were the chief usurers of those days, and, as the end sanctifies the means, were not in the least scrupulous of employing what would have been extortion in the profane, to accomplish the pious purpose of bringing a blessing on the land by rescuing it from the frail hold of carnal and temporal into the firmer grasp of ghostly and spiritual possessors.

He had done similar service to other lovers similarly circumstanced, and had disposed them in various wild scenes which he and his men had discovered in their flittings from place to place, supplying them with all necessaries and comforts from the reluctant disgorgings of fat abbots and usurers.

No more women would be ensnared, and if the usurer was gone then he could not enforce repayment, not in law, surely?

There are usurers and sinners nearer the kingdom of heaven than many a respectable, socially successful youth of education and ambition.

God,--to a God who protected murderers if they murdered Jews, and defended robbers if they plundered usurers, who was, indeed, above all law, and was supposed to distribute a violent and arbitrary justice, answering to the vulgar notion of an equity unknown on earth.

The increase of trade was shown by the growing numbers of Jews, the bankers and usurers of the time.

Carnival masks and vicious books were burned, a law of charity and another against usurers were passed-- and the democracy of Florence remained where it was.

He gave notes, took up ruinous obligations, dealt with usurers and all the race of lenders.

The most wealthy of the Italian comedians in Paris was Pantaloon, the father of Coraline and Camille, and a well-known usurer.

As a cleric, she's one step farther along than Aristobulus is as a magic usurer.

And in the European commanderies, the Jews were considered usurers, were despised, people to be exploited, not trusted.