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extravagation|ɛkstrævəgeɪʃən|
[f. prec. vb.: see -ation. Cf. Fr. extravagation.]
Wandering beyond due or prescribed limits; an extravagance.
1611Cotgr., Extravagation, an extrauagation, or extrauagating. 1669Woodhead St. Teresa i. Pref. (1671) 16 The thinking of them is apt to cause some extravagation of our thoughts in Prayer. 17..Smollett (T.), I do not pretend to justify the extravagations of the mob. 1849A. D. Fillan Stories of Rebellions 39 To check all froward desire of extravagation on the part of Major Drummond. 1899C. K. Paul Mem. 304 M. Renan never could understand how it was people were so little tolerant of his own extravagations. |