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Cozenage

//ˈkʌzənɪd͡ʒ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The fact or practice of cozening; cheating, deception. uncountable

    "They ſay this tovvne is full of coſenage: / As nimble Iuglers that deceiue the eie: […]"

  2. 2
    a fraudulent business scheme wordnet
  3. 3
    An instance of cozening; a scam. countable

    "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."

Etymology

From cozen + -age.

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