Cozenage

Word COZENAGE
Character 8
Hyphenation coz en age
Pronunciations /ˈkʌzənɪdʒ/

Definitions and meanings of "Cozenage"

What do we mean by cozenage?

The art or practice of cozening. noun

An act or example of cozening. noun

Trickery; fraud; deceit; artifice; the practice of cheating. noun

See cousinage. noun

The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud. noun

The fact or practice of cozening; cheating, deception. noun

An instance of cozening; a scam. noun

A fraudulent business scheme noun

The fact or practice of cozening; cheating, deception.

An instance of cozening; a scam.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Cozenage

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The word "cozenage" in example sentences

That's where the aformentioned "cozenage" comes in. ❋ Lisa B. (2007)

Thou are not dead, but flown afar, up hills of endless light, through blazing corridors of suns, where worlds do swing of good and gentle men, of women strong and free—far from the cozenage, black hypocrisy, and chaste prostitution of this shameful speck of dust! ❋ W.E.B. DU BOIS (2004)

Fons fraudum et maleficiorum, 'tis the fountain of cozenage and villainy. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Autolicus, Mercury's son, that dwelt in Parnassus, who got so much treasure by cozenage and stealth. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Sir Hadrian now glowered at George as if the young man himself had been a willing and eager accomplice in the matter of the Tofts's failed cozenage. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Pledge opponent Michael Newdow fittingly will also appear at this convention of cozenage. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Merchandises then hee brought before: made the meanes to borrow a great summe of Money of her, leaving her so base a pawne, as well requited her for her former cozenage. ❋ Unknown (2004)

It's something and nothing, if you take my point It'd be an amateur or a man who didn't know his own mind who'd do such a stupid thing … Or it could be a wee cozenage. ' ❋ Price, Anthony (1971)

Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage which man can put upon the providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by. ❋ Various (N/A)

And when I deliver the Yale lectures to young ministers, I shall tell them that there is a blessed guile, a holy cozenage of the heart whereby they may win their people's souls by stealth. ❋ Robert E. Knowles (N/A)

This schoolmaster taught them the art of getting, either by violence, cozenage, flattery, lying, or by putting on a guise of religion; and these four gentlemen had attained much of the art of their master, so that they could each of them have kept such a school themselves. ❋ Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin (N/A)

; Abraham's attempts, upon God's special trying commands, to kill and sacrifice his son, Gen.xxii. 10, no warrant for parents to kill or sacrifice their children; the Israelites borrowing of, and robbing the Egyptians, Exod.xii. 35, no warrant for cozenage, stealing, or for borrowing with intent not to pay again: compare Rom. xiii. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The first thing we took notice of, was a nobleman of a goodly and frank aspect, with his generous birth and temper visible in it, playing at cards with a creature of a black and horrid countenance, wherein were plainly delineated the arts of his mind, cozenage and falsehood. ❋ George A. Aitken (N/A)

Scot's time; and in order to illustrate the various tricks and modes of cozenage, he gives us so many charms and diagrams and conjurations, to say nothing of an inventory of seventy-nine devils and spirits, and their several seignories and degrees, that the _Occult Philosophy_ of ❋ Thomas Potts (N/A)

It is a curious phenomenon, and one that constantly recurs in the history of cozenage, how people who live by spoof fall victims so readily to spoofery. ❋ Unknown (1935)

Thou art not dead, but flown afar, up hills of endless light, thru blazing corridors of suns, where worlds do swing of good and gentle men, of women strong and free—far from the cozenage, black hypocrisy and chaste prostitution of this shameful speck of dust! ❋ Unknown (1922)

Strange cozenage! none would live past years again, ❋ Unknown (1919)

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