Definition of Cozenages

1. Noun. (plural of cozenage) ¹

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Definition of Cozenages

1. cozenage [n] - See also: cozenage

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cozenages

coypous
coypu
coypus
coys
coystrel
coystrels
coystril
coystrils
coywolf
coywolves
coz
coze
cozed
cozen
cozenage
cozenages
cozened
cozener
cozeners
cozening
cozens
cozes
cozey
cozeys
cozie
cozied
cozier
coziers
cozies
coziest

Literary usage of Cozenages

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"THE Cozenages OF THE WESTS. The following is reprinted from a very scarce tract, published at London in 1613, with a rough hut curious print on the title, ..."

2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"... but for all great offences and misdemeanors, as perjury, forgery, conspiracies, cozenages, oppression, riot, batteries, and other breaches of the peace, ..."

3. Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society by Hakluyt Society (1882)
"... drops his surname also in his Generall History, which is one of many internal evidences that this work is by the same author. » Query cozenages. ..."

4. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England Begun in the Year 1641 by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1888)
"... more abhorred rebellion than he did, nor could he have been led into it by any open or transparent temptation but by a thousand disguises and cozenages. ..."

5. The Literature of Roguery by Frank Wadleigh Chandler (1907)
"Balthazar the patrico, Zoroaster the upright man, and the ruffler, hooker, and limping palliard rejoice in the cozenages chronicled of them in the days of ..."

6. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"The early dramatists, if we may credit one of their eulogists, Nash, proposed great moral lessons in their representations. " In plays, all cozenages, ..."

7. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: Together with an by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"... by a thousand disguises and cozenages. His pride supplied his want of ambition, and he was angry to see any other man more respected than himself, ..."

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