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Excessiveness

Excessive \Ex*cess"ive\ ([e^]k*s[e^]s"[i^]v), a. [Cf. F. excessif.] Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch.

Excessive grief [is] the enemy to the living.
--Shak.

Syn: Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous
-- Ex*cess*ive*ly, adv. - Ex*cess"ive*ness, n.

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excessiveness

n. The property of being excessive.

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excessiveness

n. immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits [syn: excess, inordinateness]

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In an early case it held that it had no appellate jurisdiction to revise the sentence of an inferior court, even though the excessiveness of the fine was apparent on the face of the record.