feneration
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin faenerationem, from faenerare.
Noun[edit]
feneration (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Lending money at interest; usury.
- 1591, Thomas Lodge, Catharos. Diogenes in his singularitie:
- Plutarch hath also made an expresse Treatise vpon the same, where he prooueth that by Nature we ought not to vse feneration and vsurie […]
- 1631, Richard Barckley, The felicitie of man, page 638:
- True love and friendship hath respect onely to his friends necessitie, without merchandize or feneration.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, “Of Hares”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 120:
- […] and what vices therein it [sc. the hare] figured; that is, not only pusillanimity and timidity from its temper, feneration or usury from its fecundity and superfetation, but from this mixture of sexes, unnaturall venery and degenerous effemination.