Sentence examples for usury are from inspiring English sources

We learn that sins of incontinence are less wicked than sins of will; that the sins of sodomy, blasphemy, and usury are punished together because they all involve violence against God or His natural order.

And so, usury is again on our mind.

Plunging the poor into destitution through usury is serious sin.

Before the Reformation, charging interest on loans – usury – was considered sinful by the church.

Usury is abusive lending that's taken without concern for the person who's borrowing.

Poor people were to be given charity; slaves were to be treated justly; usury was to be outlawed.

This kind of unvarnished usury was considered by the clerics of the Middle Ages to be a sin.

Such fees are essentially a way for companies to evade interest-rate caps in states where usury is restricted, as the investigative journalist Paul Kiel, of ProPublica, has shown.

The Islamic law on usury is interpreted as a blanket ban on all interest-based debt – a tough stricture and one that few economies have lived up to.

But that old Biblical sin called usury has seldom disturbed these gatherings, despite an explicit injunction in Pope Benedict XVI's recent encyclical, where usury is mentioned alongside despair.

Joel Kaye, a professor of medieval history at Barnard, said that he had not thought about the week's news in the context of the Middle Ages, though he did point out that, suddenly, usury is a hot topic again.