cozening

In the end, would all the cozening of Amdijefri be for nothing?

His cozening had not worked; whatever he might now say or do, her decision was irrevocable.

Or in flight from a law aroused too fiercely for his safety, by something graver than the cozening of fools?

The gods are weary of thy cozening.

"Brimstone and gall," thundered Hook, "what cozening [cheating] is going on here!"

We cannot teach the riding of a horse or the handling of a sword or the cozening of maidens."

All the Barony's meanness, all its petty (and not so petty) cruelties, all its cozening and lying lay before her.