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Noun [English]

Forms: usures [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from French usure. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|usure}} French usure Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} usure (countable and uncountable, plural usures)
  1. (uncountable) The process by which a metaphor inexorably loses its freshness, power, and imagery through overuse. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-usure-en-noun-sH~PaQMH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 45 16 21 17 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 19 7 9 7 4 5 21 18 8 1 1
  2. (countable) An instance of degredation due to use; A sign of wear and tear. Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-usure-en-noun-8quY-uDG

Verb [English]

Forms: usures [present, singular, third-person], usuring [participle, present], usured [participle, past], usured [past]
Etymology: Borrowed from French usure. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|usure}} French usure Head templates: {{en-verb}} usure (third-person singular simple present usures, present participle usuring, simple past and past participle usured)
  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To commit usury. Tags: intransitive, obsolete
    Sense id: en-usure-en-verb-UACzAO51
  2. To cause to degenerate through usage.
    Sense id: en-usure-en-verb-wX~O4T-f

Noun [French]

IPA: /y.zyʁ/ Forms: usures [plural]
Rhymes: -yʁ Etymology: From Latin ūsūra. Etymology templates: {{uder|fr|la|ūsūra}} Latin ūsūra Head templates: {{fr-noun|f|-|+}} usure f (usually uncountable, plural usures)
  1. (finance) usury Tags: feminine, uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Finance Related terms: usuraire, usurier
    Sense id: en-usure-fr-noun-i3BQBBFk Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header, French terms suffixed with -ure, French undefined derivations Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 59 41 Disambiguation of French terms suffixed with -ure: 62 38 Topics: business, finance
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun [French]

IPA: /y.zyʁ/
Rhymes: -yʁ Etymology: From user + -ure. Etymology templates: {{af|fr|user|-ure}} user + -ure Head templates: {{fr-noun|f|-}} usure f (uncountable)
  1. wear and tear, wear Tags: feminine, uncountable Derived forms: avoir à l’usure, guerre d’usure, usure phonétique
    Sense id: en-usure-fr-noun-RnXuhcLY
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun [Italian]

Head templates: {{head|it|noun form|g=f}} usure f
  1. plural of usura Tags: feminine, form-of, plural Form of: usura
    Sense id: en-usure-it-noun-plRnaaL5 Categories (other): Italian entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries, Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 19 7 9 7 4 5 21 18 8 1 1 Disambiguation of Pages with 5 entries: 12 3 3 5 2 3 39 29 2 1 1 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 14 2 2 4 2 2 40 29 2 1 1

Verb [Latin]

Forms: ūsūre [canonical]
Head templates: {{head|la|participle form|head=ūsūre}} ūsūre
  1. vocative masculine singular of ūsūrus Tags: form-of, masculine, participle, singular, vocative Form of: ūsūrus
    Sense id: en-usure-la-verb-RLC~gmyh Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries, Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 19 7 9 7 4 5 21 18 8 1 1

Noun [Middle English]

Forms: usures [plural], usur [alternative], usere [alternative], user [alternative]
Etymology: From Old French usure, from Latin ūsūra. Etymology templates: {{bor|enm|fro|usure}} Old French usure, {{der|enm|la|ūsūra}} Latin ūsūra Head templates: {{head|enm|nouns|g=|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} usure, {{enm-noun}} usure (plural usures)
  1. To lend money in order to make interest; usury.
    Sense id: en-usure-enm-noun-fDc8~0rQ
  2. Interest on a loan.
    Sense id: en-usure-enm-noun-gFMLzmci
  3. A loan.
    Sense id: en-usure-enm-noun-DugqUj2N
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: usurie Related terms: usurere

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1605, Ben Johson, Volpone, or The Fox:",
          "text": "I turn no moneys in the public bank; Nor usure private.",
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          "ref": "1861 January 28, Thos. W. Lockwood, “A bill to regulate the interest on money loaned, and other contracts and liabilities”, in Journal of the Michigan Legislature House of Representatives, page 246:",
          "text": "Neither do we approve the policy of the other sections of the bill referred to us, which proposes to declare utterly void all interests by which any usurious or illegal rate of interest is usured or taken, and under which a party may, as has been elsewhere done, tempt a neighbor by an offer of a high rate of interest to loan him money, and then under the cover of this law, turn around and cheat him out of the whole of it.",
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          "ref": "2006, Stefania Lucamante, Sharon Wood, Under Arturo's Star: The Cultural Legacies of Elsa Morante, page 174:",
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          "ref": "2007, Philip D. Krey, Peter D. S. Krey, Luther's Spirituality, page 42:",
          "text": "Now, however, preaching cannot help anymore. They have usured themselves deaf, blind, and senseless, and they hear, see, and feel nothing more.",
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          "text": "This dialectic of \"blindness and insight\" (and if this insight of Paul de Man has been used up, usured too many times to have kept its luster, what other relation to blindness is concealed in the place of its cliché?) continues to structure our stories that unfold at the site / sight of blindness in the heart of the other's vision: Plato's sighting that of the cave-dwellers,' Derrida's exposing Plato's.",
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          "text": "Usures develop there which frequently have sclerotic outlines. Usures are also found on the upper surface of the talus, sometimes there are corresponding changes on the articular surface of the tibia.",
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          "text": "Neither do we approve the policy of the other sections of the bill referred to us, which proposes to declare utterly void all interests by which any usurious or illegal rate of interest is usured or taken, and under which a party may, as has been elsewhere done, tempt a neighbor by an offer of a high rate of interest to loan him money, and then under the cover of this law, turn around and cheat him out of the whole of it.",
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          "text": "Before him lay the Groan debtor's prison, a stark gray block against the iron sky. Within its sheer walls were the mad, the indebted, those usured into servitude.",
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          "ref": "2007, Philip D. Krey, Peter D. S. Krey, Luther's Spirituality, page 42:",
          "text": "Now, however, preaching cannot help anymore. They have usured themselves deaf, blind, and senseless, and they hear, see, and feel nothing more.",
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          "ref": "2011, Zsuzsa Baross, Posthumously: For Jacques Derrida, page 73:",
          "text": "This dialectic of \"blindness and insight\" (and if this insight of Paul de Man has been used up, usured too many times to have kept its luster, what other relation to blindness is concealed in the place of its cliché?) continues to structure our stories that unfold at the site / sight of blindness in the heart of the other's vision: Plato's sighting that of the cave-dwellers,' Derrida's exposing Plato's.",
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          "text": "This movement involves a detour through metaphor: with the expropriation of the primitive meaning given to things, we fall into a metaphoric mode of understanding; in the course of human history and through the process of usure or wearing away of the figurative, and 'proper' meaning is restored; this new one is the old one effaced and carried to a higher conceptual power, now interiorized and spiritualized.",
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          "ref": "1984, Stanislav Popelka, Surgery of Rheumatoid Arthritis, page 176:",
          "text": "Usures develop there which frequently have sclerotic outlines. Usures are also found on the upper surface of the talus, sometimes there are corresponding changes on the articular surface of the tibia.",
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          "ref": "1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Prioresses Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:",
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