centage

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centage

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From Latin centum (“hundred”) + -age (forming nouns indicating a rate). Compare later percentage.

noun centages

rare Rate by the hundred; percentage. It would mightily advance the cause, and make direct taxation greatly more popular, were it carried into effect by a small centage on property, rather than by a centage twenty times larger on income — in other words were the tax on property alone, and not at all on income.

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@misc{centage_2026,
  title = {centage},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/centage},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}