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exorbitations

exorbitations is the plural of exorbitation.

Meaning of exorbitation

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

Questions about exorbitations

What is exorbitations the plural of?
Exorbitations is the plural of exorbitation.

Words near exorbitations in the dictionary

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

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