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ex·or·bi·tan·cy
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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Exorbitance, Exorbitancynoun
Etymology: from exorbitance.
I see some degree of this fault cleave to those, who have eminently corrected all other exorbitancies of the tongue. Government of the Tongue, s. 4.
The reverence of my presence may be a curb to your exorbitancies. John Dryden, Spanish Fryar.
The people were grosly imposed on, to commit such exorbitancies as could not end but in the dissolution of the government. Jonathan Swift, on the Dissentions in Athens and Rome.
They riot still,
Unbounded in exorbitance of ill. Samuel Garth, Dispensary.
Webster Dictionary
Exorbitancynoun
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
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of exorbitancy in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of exorbitancy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
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