Definitions for exorbitance

exorbitance ex·or·bi·tance

Spelling: [ig-zawr-bi-tuh ns]
IPA: /ɪgˈzɔr bɪ təns/

Exorbitance is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 25 points.

You can make 999 anagrams from letters in exorbitance (abceeinortx).

Definitions for exorbitance

noun

  1. the quality of being exorbitant; excessiveness.

Origin of exorbitance

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

Examples for exorbitance

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

As extravagance is excess in outlay, exorbitance is excess in demands, and especially in pecuniary demands upon others.

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

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

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

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

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