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exorbitancy🔊

The state or characteristic of exceeding proper limits.

📑 Synonyms: exorbitance
💬 Quotations
Since I knew what to feare, my timerous heart hath dreaded three things: a blazing starre appearing in the aire: a State Comet, I mean a favourite rising in a Kingdome, a new Opinion spreading in Religion: these are Exorbitancies: which is a formidable word: a vacuum and an exorbitancy, are mundicidious evils.

A large excess.

📑 Synonyms: exorbitance