cozenage
UK /ˈkʌzənɪd͡ʒ/ US /ˈkʌzənɪd͡ʒ/
noun 2
Definitions
noun
1
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?
2
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.
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