cozenage

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The fact or practice of cozening; cheating, deception.

   “They ſay this tovvne is full of coſenage: / As nimble Iuglers that deceiue the eie: […]”

2. isim An instance of cozening; a scam.

   “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.”