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noun

Usance n.

Use; usage; employment. (Obs.)

Custom; practice; usage. (Obs.)

Interest paid for money; usury. (Obs.)

(Com.) The time, fixed variously by the usage between different countries, when a bill of exchange is payable; as, a bill drawn on London at one usance, or at double usance.

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... had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me. But 'tis to much purpose to evade it; the common custom and usance of life will have it so. The most of my actions are guided by example, not by choice, and yet I did not go to it of my own voluntary motion; I was led and drawn to it by extrinsic occasions; for not ...

— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne

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