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 Translation for 'usurer' from English to Albanian
NOUN   a usurer | usurers
SYNO loan shark | moneylender | shylock | ...
kamatar {m}usurer
fin.zanate
fajdexhi {m} [vjet.]
usurer
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Translation for 'usurer' from English to Albanian

usurer
kamatar {m}

fajdexhi {m} [vjet.]fin.zanate
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Usage Examples English
  • Ray Balzac Courland is a master thief who calls himself "Noir". He lives as an usurer under the name "Count Ray Balzac Courland". He is 18 years old. He prefers to use a whip as a weapon.
  • In Honoré de Balzac's 1830 novel "Gobseck", the title character, who is a usurer, is described as both "petty and great – a miser and a philosopher..."
  • Subsequent scenes in the main plot alternate between the court of Rasni and Remilia, and scenes showing an usurer and his victims – primarily the spendthrift young gentleman Thrasybulus and the virtuous but poor Alcon, both of whom have loans forfeited to an unscrupulous moneylender.
  • He is too consumed in his career as a usurer to leave it behind for the country.
  • On the negative side, he was a gambler who lost great sums at play. Additionally, he is known for being a wicked usurer according to Dante in the Divine Comedy.

  • He is best known for being a wicked usurer according to Dante in the Divine Comedy.
  • He is best known for being a wicked usurer, and by association with his son, Enrico degli Scrovegni, who commissioned the famous Arena Chapel by Giotto.
  • Because he can only use the treasure in Old Scratch's service, Tom agrees to become a usurer (today commonly called a loan shark), after refusing to become a slave trader.
  • But the bracketing of the miser and the usurer as equally culpable types, mentioned earlier, makes it difficult to interpret the subject of later moralistic paintings, since they may represent either a hoarder, a money lender or even a tax collector.
  • He went frequently to the races at Newmarket, and was considered a notorious usurer.

  • She was the daughter of Warsaw burgher Jan Giza, a merchant and usurer, and his wife Anna, whose origins are unknown.
  • Prudencio and Lola are in danger because of the usurer Pablo Armero. Finally Prudencio and Lola manage to get married, while Pablo Armero dies in the fire of Fernando Mesía.
  • A usurer was killed on the church forecourt as he was about to get married: a stone figure representing a usurer became detached and fell on him.
  • ... –1804), was a usurer. He was the son of Thomas Ewin, formerly a grocer, and latterly a brewer in partnership with one Sparks of St.
  • As such, the 3rd Virginia usurer in the tenure of perhaps their best known commander, Colonel Roger Atkinson Pryor.

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