"cozenage" meaning in English

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          "text": "They ſay this tovvne is full of coſenage: / As nimble Iuglers that deceiue the eie: […]",
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          "text": "I ask you, What is human life? Is it not a maimed happiness—care and weariness, weariness and care, with a baseless expectation, the strange cozenage of a brighter tomorrow?",
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          "text": "When I receive your Lines, my dear Princess, and find there Expressions of a Passion; though Reason and my own Immerit tell me, it must not be for me; yet is the Cozenage so pleasing to me, that I (brib'd by my own Desires) believe them still before the other."
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        "(countable) An instance of cozening; a scam."
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      "word": "cousenage"
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