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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Exorbitance \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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
exorbitance
n : excessive excess [syn: {outrageousness}]
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