exorbitance

[ ig-zawr-bi-tuhns ]

noun

1. the quality of being exorbitant; excessiveness.

Word History and Origins

Origin of exorbitance¹

1400–50; late Middle English exorbitaunce; exorbitant, -ance

Example Sentences

The intolerable oppression upon trade, from the exorbitance of wages and insolence of mariners, would be taken off.

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Unrea′son, lack of reason; Unrea′sonableness, the state or quality of being unreasonable: exorbitance.

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It was borne upon them that this exorbitance, a strange incident in their own lives, was to these others a daily occurrence.

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The treaty meets with difficulties in the ratification,—perhaps the exorbitance of the price may occasion them.

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All this is explicable by the exorbitance of the fees charged, about which there was much complaint.

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