The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
The lamentable exorbitances of their superstitions.
--Bp. Hall.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of exorbitance English)
Usage examples of "exorbitancy".
The exorbitancy of his grief, and the mortifications he underwent, soon produced an incurable malady, under which he languished from the month of September in the preceding year till the tenth of August in the present, when he expired.
Fifteen of the chief officers of the crown were to be continued, who, it was supposed, would adhere to the king, and, in case of any extremity, oppose the exorbitancies of faction.
The exorbitancy of his grief, and the mortifications he underwent, soon produced an incurable malady, under which he languished from the month of September in the preceding year till the tenth of August in the present, when he expired.