exorbitancen.
/ɛɡˈzɔːbɪtəns/ The quality or condition of being exorbitant.† 1. Divergence or aberration from the prescribed or ordinary track; eccentricity, irregularity, anomaly, or an instance of these. Also, aberration of mind; an attack of insanity. Obsolete or archaic.
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the world > space > direction > [noun] > straight or constant direction > deviation from
exorbitancea1628
exorbitationa1628
deflection1665
deviation1675
divergence1837
the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > [noun] > avoiding an action or condition > turning aside from a course of action
divagation1560
swaya1586
deviation1603
deflection1605
recess1605
recession1614
exit1615
non-residence1615
exorbitancy1623
exorbitancea1628
exorbitationa1628
aberrancy1646
aberrance1661
variationa1662
departurea1694
resilience1838
a1628 J. Preston Life Eternall (1631) i. iv. 66 Now, whence comes this uneven walking, this exorbitance of the wheeles.
1663 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies 133 All these exorbitances in Nature serve to foil and set off the general beauty..of its Works.
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician xi. 373 The first exorbitance [in a case of mania] was very violent and lasted for ten months.
1686 R. Boyle Free Enq. Notion Nature 149 I shall not..mention those Grand Anomalies, or Exorbitances.
1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 186 By the Pulse we find by what Method we must regulate all Exorbitances.
1842 T. De Quincey Philos. Herodotus in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 20/2 Our growing exorbitance from our limits warns us to desist.
2. Divergence from the right path; transgression of law or morality; misconduct, lawlessness, criminality; an instance of the same. archaic.
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun]
tyrantry1340
tyranny1475
licentiousness1553
lawlessness1591
exorbitance1611
exorbitancy1619
anarchism1642
outlawry1836
outlawry1869
jungle law1894
law of the jungle1894
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. viii. 504/2 A proiect..so execrable, as well may iustifie King Iohns exorbitances.
a1618 J. Sylvester Hymn St. Lewis 324 Eyes deep-vail'd with Ignorance Or Knowledge stained with Sinnes Exorbitance.
1664 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders (new ed.) i. sig. d2v Beware of ill Builders..since by their Exorbitances, happen many irreparable accidents.
1770 Ann. Reg. 1769 32/2 A picture..sullied with the most dreadful exhorbitances.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake Notes p. xxxvii The Border robbers..had committed many exorbitancies.
1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VII. ii. lv. 46 Such unprincipled exorbitances of behaviour.
3. Excessiveness, extravagance; an instance of this. Now chiefly, outrageous excessiveness, of demands, charges, prices, estimates, etc.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > [noun] > excessiveness, extravagance
extremitya1533
exorbitancya1638
exorbitance1646
transvolation1649
hyperbole1652
extremism1865
1646 Mrq. Ormond in Carte Life (1735) III. 470 To heighten the exhorbitance of their expectations and demands.
1706 S. Garth Dispensary (ed. 6) ii. 19 They riot still Unbounded in Exorbitance of Ill.
1793 S. Horsley Serm. (1824) I. 198 The barriers..against..the exorbitance of licentiousness..will soon be borne down.
1852 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation (ed. 2) ii. v. 212 The exorbitance of the duties on tea and tobacco.
1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. IV. x. 9 The exorbitance Of sin in this one sinner.
1884 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 26 240 The exorbitance of Hobson's charge for collecting the debts.
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