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单词 extravagancy
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extravagancyn.

/ɛkˈstravəɡənsi/
Etymology: < extravagant adj. and n.: see -ancy suffix.
1. A wandering beyond bounds or out of one's course; vagrancy; an instance of this. Obsolete.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > [noun] > deviation from straight course
turna1400
circuit1483
circumferencea1549
wrying1592
extravagation1611
extravagancya1616
extravagance1644
deviation1646
outstepping1656
left1675
detour1738
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. i. 10 My determinate voyage is meere extrauagancie . View more context for this quotation
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 224 I will lead you through no more extrauagancies.
1671 A. Woodhead in tr. Life St. Teresa Pref. 16 For recollecting of the Thoughts, and hindering them from extravagancy.
2. The quality or fact of being extravagant adj. and n. (in senses 5, and 6): (a) Abnormal or unusual character, eccentricity; impropriety, unbecomingness (obsolete); (b) The quality of exceeding the bounds of decorum, taste, or probability; in later use, flagrant excess, outrageousness; Now somewhat rare; cf. extravagance n. 2.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > lack of moderation or restraint > [noun]
unimetec888
unmethelOE
overdeeda1200
unmetheshipa1250
outragec1325
ragec1330
reveriec1350
delavinessc1380
recolagea1400
dissolutionc1400
superfluityc1405
wantonness1448
intemperancy1532
intemperacy?1541
untemperance?1541
intemperance1547
excess1552
immoderateness1569
intemperateness1571
unbridledness1571
inordinateness1577
untemperateness1578
dissoluteness1580
acrasia1590
acrasy1590
intemperature1602
inordination1615
inordinancya1617
immoderation1640
extravagancy1651
debauch1672
extravagance1676
incontinency1715
extravaganza1754
incontinence1836
unmeasuredness1864
the world > action or operation > behaviour > other specific behaviour > [noun] > extravagant behaviour
extravagancy1651
extravagance1676
extravaganza1754
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [noun]
outrageoustya1425
enormitya1538
extravagancy1651
spuriousness1674
anormality1836
abnormality1850
abnormalism1851
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. viii. 33 In Sonnets, Epigrams..the Fancy must be more eminent; because they please for the Extravagancy.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures (1663) xviii. 62 With the like extravagancy he answered to many other questions.
1690 J. Child Disc. Trade i. 44 For the bettering of Trade, and pareing off the extravagancy of the Law.
1697 J. Vanbrugh Provok'd Wife iii. 30 Were it not for the extravagancy of the Example, I should e'en tear out these wicked Eyes.
1720 R. Welton tr. T. Alvares de Andrade Sufferings Son of God II. xiv. 362 Touch'd with the Extravagancy..of the Jewish Nation.
3. = extravagance n. 3.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > other specific behaviour > [noun] > extravagant behaviour > instance of
extravagancy1625
extravagance1650
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun] > instance of
follyc1300
absurditya1525
mumpsimus1531
trim-tram1533
foppery1546
ridicle1570
fangle1583
delirium1599
monstruosity1601
adox1606
absurd1610
extravagancy1625
incongruitya1626
monstrosity1639
extravagant1644
extravagance1650
ridiculea1658
fadoodlea1670
ridiculous1674
irrationalitya1680
ridiculosity1773
whimsy-whamsy1807
absurdism1815
nonsensity1834
nonsensical1842
nonsensicalitya1850
fandango1856
fandangle1880
bollock1919
1625 R. Montagu Appello Cæsarem ii. xxxiv. 248 Popish extravagancies.
1662 B. Gerbier Brief Disc. Princ. Building 17 The causes of many Deformities and Extravagancies in Buildings.
1671 R. Bohun Disc. Wind 64 The Peruvian [mountains], and some others which may be reckon'd as the Extravagancys of Nature.. overlook the Clouds.
1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. III. lx. 295 Numberless were the extravagancies which broke out among the people.
1838 W. Whewell in I. Todhunter William Whewell (1876) II. 273 Landor's extravagancies of expression.
1852 W. Hamilton Discuss. Philos. & Lit. 491 Luther was betrayed into..extravagancies by an assurance of his personal inspiration.
4. = extravagance n. 4. Obsolete.
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the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [noun]
overflowingnessOE
wastinga1300
prodigality1340
misdispendingc1390
misspendingc1390
fool-largessec1405
wantonness1448
fool-largec1450
dilapidationc1460
lavish1483
consuminga1538
profusion1545
sumptuosity1550
wastefulness1551
lashing1556
lavishing1574
profuseness1584
lavishness1590
misspense1591
wastening1604
outlashing1611
duck and drake1614
largesse1614
lavishment1630
squandering1632
prodigence1634
dissipation1639
wastry1645
profusiveness1655
high living1656
nepotation1656
extravagancy1666
extravagance1727
profligacy1792
squander1806
profligateness1817
wastrife1818
spendthriftism1862
wasterfulness1884
high-rolling1890
prodigalism1896
spendthriftiness1950
squanderbugging1966
society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > waste of money or extravagance > [noun]
overflowingnessOE
fool-largessec1405
fool-largec1450
improvidencec1450
wastry1645
extravagancy1666
extravagance1727
thriftlessness1817
hand-to-mouth1835
spendthriftism1862
imprevision1883
banging1897
spendthriftiness1950
grasshoppering1956
1666 G. Alsop Char. Province Maryland 3 Natures extravagancy of a superabounding plenty.
1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xlii. 292 All your extravagancies have been supported gratis.
1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 110 I have always thought it the height of extravagancy and luxury to fell so stately a tree.
1822 E. Nathan Langreath I. 19 He wanted money to pursue his extravagancies.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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