usury: [14] Usury is etymologically ‘use’ of money lent. The term comes via Anglo-Norman *usurie from medieval Latin ūsūria, an alteration of classical Latin ūsūra ‘use of money lent’, hence ‘interest’. This in turn was derived from ūsus ‘use’, source also of English use and usage. => use
usury (n.)
c. 1300, "practice of lending money at interest," later, at excessive rates of interest, from Medieval Latin usuria, alteration of Latin usura "payment for the use of money, interest," literally "a usage, use, enjoyment," from usus, from stem of uti (see use (v.)). From mid-15c. as "premium paid for the use of money, interest," especially "exorbitant interest."
实用例句
1. The interest of usury is unfairly high.
高利贷的利息惊人得高.
来自《简明英汉词典》
2. He used to practise usury frequently.
他过去经常放高利贷。
来自辞典例句
3. And the principal means for suppressing the common liberty were -- money and usury.
这时, 货币和高利贷已成为压制人民自由的主要手段.
来自英汉非文学 - 家庭、私有制和国家的起源
4. Usury is condemned as payment for the use of money which has no use value.
高利贷是受到遗责的,因为那是对使用货币的支付,而货币本身是没有使用价值的.
来自辞典例句
5. The purpose however, was the same - tax collection, usury, local political control.
