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Definition of Cozening
1. cozen [v] - See also: cozen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cozening
Literary usage of Cozening
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... fears, suspicions, discontents, contentions, discords, wars, treacheries,
enmities, flattery, cozening, riot, impudence, cruelty, knavery," &c. ..."
2. The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon: In which is Included a Continuation by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1827)
"... and so talked loosely and bitterly “of their cozening the king, and “what ill
bargains had been made with them ;“ though it was made manifest, ..."
3. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: Together with an by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"... with those who they found could do them hurt ; whilst the French delighted
themselves both with disappointing their enemy and cozening their friends; ..."
4. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... fears, suspicions, discontents, contentions, discords, wars, treacheries,
enmities, flattery, cozening, riot, impudence, cruelty, knavery," &c. ..."
5. The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon: In which is Included a Continuation by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1827)
"... and so talked loosely and bitterly “of their cozening the king, and “what ill
bargains had been made with them ;“ though it was made manifest, ..."
6. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: Together with an by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"... with those who they found could do them hurt ; whilst the French delighted
themselves both with disappointing their enemy and cozening their friends; ..."
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