cozenage
Collocations
3ADJ.
brighter, full, incredible, strange
COZENAGE + NOUN
benjamin
ADV.
almost
Definitions
noun
The fact or practice of cozening; cheating, deception.
They ſay this tovvne is full of coſenage: / As nimble Iuglers that deceiue the eie: […]
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?
An instance of cozening; a scam.
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.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — a fraudulent business scheme
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
5They ſay this tovvne is full of coſenage: / As nimble Iuglers that deceiue the eie: […]
WiktionaryI 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?
WiktionaryWhen 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 (br
WiktionaryThey say this town is full of cozenage.
Tatoeba · #1078677By cozenage almost incredible, Benjamin, at the age of eighteen, had been thus lured off to London; the London of Addison, Pope and Sir Isaac Newton.
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