extravagancy
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of extravagancy
First recorded in 1615–25; extravag(ant) + -ancy
Example Sentences
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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
I had thought all such extravagancy perished with the Launcelot and Palomides of your book.
From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by Cabell, James Branch
No, 'sooth, sir; my determinate voyage is mere extravagancy.
From Twelfth Night by Shakespeare, William
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 Burgon, John William
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 Paley, William
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