exorbitancy

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɪɡˈzɔː(ɹ)bɪtənsi/

Noun

exorbitancy (countable and uncountable, plural exorbitancies)

  1. Alternative form of exorbitance
    • 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act III, page 29:
      […] the Reverence of my Preſence may be a curb to your Exorbitancies.

References
  • Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
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