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the fact or practice of cozening; cheating, deception (countable and uncountable, plural cozenages: I ask you, What is human life? Is it not a maimed happiness—care and weariness, weariness and care, with a baseless expectation, the strange cozenage of a brighter tomorrow? (1896)  wiktionary.org); an instance of cozening; a scam (countable and uncountable, plural cozenages: When I receive your Lines, my dear Princess, and find there Expressions of a Passion; though Reason and my own Immerit tell me, it must not be for me; yet is the Cozenage so pleasing to me, that I (brib'd by my own Desires) believe them still before the other. (1646) wiktionary.org) |
