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Exorbitance

Exorbitance Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Exorbitance? [n] excessive excess Synonyms \| Synonyms for Exorbitance: outrageousness Related Terms \| Find terms related to Exorbitance: abandon \| aggrandizement \| amplification \| ballyhoo \| big talk \| blowing up \| boundlessness \| burlesque \| caricature \| dilatation \| dilation \| egregiousness \| enhancement \| enlargement \| enormousness \| exaggerating \| exaggeration \| excess \| excessiveness \| exorbitancy \| expansion \| extortionateness \| extravagance \| extravagancy \| extreme \| extremes \| extremism \| extremity \| fabulousness \| giantism \| gigantism \| gluttony \| grandiloquence \| heightening \| huckstering \| hyperbole \| hyperbolism \| hypertrophy \| immoderacy \| immoderateness \| immoderation \| incontinence \| inflation \| inordinacy \| inordinance \| inordinateness \| intemperance \| intemperateness \| magnification \| monstrousness \| nimiety \| outrageousness \| overdevelopment \| overemphasis \| overestimation \| overgreatness \| overgrowth \| overindulgence \| overkill \| overlargeness \| overmuch \| overmuchness \| overstatement \| preposterousness \| prodigality \| profuseness \| puffery \| puffing up \| radicalism \| sensationalism \| stretching \| superlative \| tall talk \| too much \| too-muchness \| touting \| travesty \| unconscionableness \| undueness \| unreasonableness \| unrestrainedness See Also \| excess \| excessiveness \| inordinateness Exorbitance In Webster's Dictionary \Exor"bitance\, Exorbitancy \Exor"bitan*cy\,, n. 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.

Exorbitance Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Exorbitance?

[n] excessive excess

Synonyms | Synonyms for Exorbitance: outrageousness

See Also | excess | excessiveness | inordinateness

Exorbitance In Webster's Dictionary

\Ex*or"bi*tance\, Exorbitancy \Ex*or"bi*tan*cy\,, n.
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.

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