extravagancy
Americannoun
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extravagancies
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Etymology
Origin of extravagancy
First recorded in 1615–25; extravag(ant) + -ancy
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The Chinese regard the West's failure to make use of excrement as "extreme extravagancy," says Wittwer.
From Time Magazine Archive
A more curious extravagancy was uttered to me by a professor of applied mathematics.
From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
I had thought all such extravagancy perished with the Launcelot and Palomides of your book.
From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by James Branch Cabell
It can often be proved, when any of them exhibit marked extravagancy, that such extravagancy dates back as far as the second or third century.
From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by John William Burgon
Pantagruel one day, to refresh himself of his study, went a-walking towards St. Marcel's suburbs, to see the extravagancy of the Gobeline building, and to taste of their spiced bread.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by Peter Anthony Motteux
Long gone are the extravagancies of Granit Xhaka, in exchange for a far more acceptable and even-tempered Rice, who is a far better footballer anyway.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2024
But Venus Observed is modern, sophisticated, drawing-room bred, .and its ironies, at times, stare down its extravagancies as arrant trespassers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such extravagancies cannot but detract from scientific validity.
From Time Magazine Archive
That many of the Pietists might lose themselves in extravagancies and dangerous by-ways, is easily comprehensible.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. by Gustav Freytag
And it must be remembered when we consider Socialism’s early extravagancies, that any idea or system of ideas which challenges the existing system is necessarily, in relation to that system, outcast.
From New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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