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What is the noun for usurer?

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usurer
  1. A person who loans money to others and charges interest, particularly at an illegal, exorbitant, or unfair rate.
  2. (rare) Specifically, a male usurer.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The voluntary sacrifice of others to the usurer does not make his gains just.”
      “The usurer will go on hanging the cozener as long as we have a society based, in part, on usury.”
      “In this case, the gift could not be purchased licitly by another, naturally, for the unforced buyer would surely be a usurer.”
usuress
  1. (rare) A female usurer.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “That woman — that usuress — only lent me £20, but expected £50 back after just one week!”
usuresses
usurers
  1. plural of usurer
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Blasphemers, sodomites, and usurers are punished here by the blistering heat.”
      “If you oblige many men to be money-lenders, some will assuredly be usurers.”
      “He governed Sardinia, expelling usurers and restricting the demands made on the Sardinians for the upkeep of himself and his staff.”
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