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2 definitions found 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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