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
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
No, sooth, sir; my determinate voyage is mere extravagancy.
From Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
No enthusiasm ever reached to such a pitch of extravagancy as that: a spirit may be an illusion; a body is a real thing, an object of sense, in which there can be no mistake.
From Evidence of Christianity by William Paley
No, 'sooth, sir; my determinate voyage is mere extravagancy.
From Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
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
The revenue was, as usual, unequal to meet the extravagancies of the royal family, and so was added every succeeding year an increase to the already immense "NATIONAL DEBT."
From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Lady Anne Hamilton
Mr. Overman was an extreme Radical, “but his political extravagancies were amply condoned by his warmth and kindliness of heart.”
From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Charles Mackie
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