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English
Etymology
From Latin faenerationem, from faenerare.
Noun
feneration (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Lending money at interest; usury.
1591, Thomas Lodge, Catharos. Diogenes in his singularitie:Plutarch hath also made an expresse Treatise vpon the same, where he prooueth that by Nature we ought not to vse feneration and vsurie […]
1631, Richard Barckley, The felicitie of man, page 638:True love and friendship hath respect onely to his friends necessitie, without merchandize or feneration.
1650, Thomas Browne, “Of Hares”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: , 2nd edition, London: A Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath Ekins, , →OCLC, 3rd book, page 120:[…] and what vices therein it [sc. the hare] figured; that is, not only pusillanimity and timidity from its temper, feneration or usury from its fecundity and superfetation, but from this mixture of sexes, unnaturall venery and degenerous effemination.