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Webster 1913 Edition


Exorbitancy

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Ex-or′bi-tance

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Ex-or′bi-tan-cy

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Noun.
A going out of or beyond the usual or due limit; hence, enormity; extravagance; gross deviation from rule, right, or propriety;
as, the
exorbitances
of the tongue or of deportment;
exorbitance
of demands.
“A curb to your exorbitancies.”
Dryden.
The lamentable
exorbitances
of their superstitions.
Bp. Hall.