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exorbitation

exorbitation noun: the act of leaving the usual path or course; deviation.

Noun

exorbitation (countable and uncountable, plural exorbitations)

  1. (archaic) The act of leaving the usual path or course; deviation.
    • Nothing they are ſaue a meere perturbation / Of common Nature, an exorbitation / And bringing out of ſquare;[…]1635, Tho[mas] Heywood, “The Seraphim”, in The Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells. Their Names, Orders and Offices; The Fall of Lucifer with His Angells, London: […] Adam Islip, page 12
    • It does not recount how mercifully the captain of our steamer found a valet de place for us, and told him to take care of us, and bring us back at a given moment. Nor how our payment of ten francs for three persons, instead of Heaven knows what exorbitation, was owing to this circumstance.1868, Julia Ward Howe, “Return Voyage”, in From the Oak to the Olive: A Plain Record of a Pleasant Journey, Boston: Lee and Shepard, page 248

Forms of exorbitation

pluralexorbitations

Origin of exorbitation

Borrowed from Latin exorbitatio, from exorbitō (“to go off the track, deviate”) + -tio.

Questions about exorbitation

What does exorbitation mean?
Exorbitation means the act of leaving the usual path or course; deviation.
What part of speech is exorbitation?
Exorbitation is a noun.
What is the plural of exorbitation?
The plural of exorbitation is exorbitations.

Words near exorbitation in the dictionary

  1. exorbitantly
  2. exorbitate
  3. exorbitated
  4. exorbitates
  5. exorbitating
  6. exorbitation
  7. exorbitations
  8. exorbitism
  9. exorcisable
  10. exorcisation
  11. exorcisations

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