usuriousness

English

Etymology

From usurious +‎ -ness.

Noun

usuriousness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being usurious.
    • 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter XII, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth‎[1]:
      The clerk consented to come out when he perceived that he was being asked for by an old lady who was too infirm to walk; after which the Grandmother began to upbraid him at length, and with great vehemence, for his alleged usuriousness, and to bargain with him in a mixture of Russian, French, and German—I acting as interpreter.
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