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Definition of Cozeners
1. cozener [n] - See also: cozener
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cozeners
Literary usage of Cozeners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1778)
"The cozeners ; a Comedy, in Three A£b. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal
in the Haymarket. Written by- the late Samuel Foote, Efq; ..."
2. Historical and Biographical Essays by John Forster (1858)
"Not long after his re-appearance in London he produced his cozeners. Here again
was legitimate satire. It exposed traffickers in vice, denounced the ..."
3. The Minor Theatre: Being a Collection of the Most Approved Farces, Operas (1794)
"... acquaintance with the manners and practice of the worst part of the world, is
as fully displayed in hh cozeners as in any piece Foote has given to it. ..."
4. The New English by T[homas] L[aurence] Kington Oliphant (1886)
"cozeners (1774). Here troth is made to rime with oath ; I have lately heard
wroth (iratus) pronounced from the pulpit in the same way ; a useful distinction ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1778)
"The cozeners ; a Comedy, in Three A£b. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal
in the Haymarket. Written by- the late Samuel Foote, Efq; ..."
6. Historical and Biographical Essays by John Forster (1858)
"Not long after his re-appearance in London he produced his cozeners. Here again
was legitimate satire. It exposed traffickers in vice, denounced the ..."
7. The Minor Theatre: Being a Collection of the Most Approved Farces, Operas (1794)
"... acquaintance with the manners and practice of the worst part of the world, is
as fully displayed in hh cozeners as in any piece Foote has given to it. ..."
8. The New English by T[homas] L[aurence] Kington Oliphant (1886)
"cozeners (1774). Here troth is made to rime with oath ; I have lately heard
wroth (iratus) pronounced from the pulpit in the same way ; a useful distinction ..."
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