English
Noun
cozenage (plural cozenages)
-  The fact or practice of cozening; cheating, deception.
-  An instance of cozening; a scam.
-  John Suckling
-  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  […]