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Cozenage   Listen
noun
Cozenage  n.  The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Cozenage" Quotes from Famous Books



... the deceit, Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day, Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest. Strange cozenage! none would live past years again; Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain. And, from the dregs of life, think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give. I'm tir'd with waiting for this chemic gold, Which fools us young and ...
— Halleck's New English Literature • Reuben P. Halleck

... mere craft and cozenage. And therefore the reputation of honesty must first be gotten; which cannot be but by living well. A good life is ...
— The Bed-Book of Happiness • Harold Begbie

... full of cozenage, As nimble jugglers that deceive the eye, Disguised cheaters, prating mountebanks, And many such like ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume XII., No. 324, July 26, 1828 • Various



Words linked to "Cozenage" :   cozen, cheat, rig



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