Exorbitancy

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Exorbitance \Ex*or"bi*tance\, Exorbitancy \Ex*or"bi*tan*cy\,, n.
     A going out of or beyond the usual or due limit; hence,
     enormity; extravagance; gross deviation from rule, right, or
     propriety; as, the exorbitances of the tongue or of
     deportment; exorbitance of demands. "A curb to your
     exorbitancies." --Dryden.


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           The lamentable exorbitances of their superstitions.
                                                    --Bp. Hall.
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