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extravagation

extravagation noun: a straying beyond limits; excess.

Noun

extravagation (countable and uncountable, plural extravagations)

  1. (archaic) A straying beyond limits; excess.
    • By reaso[n] of which their digressions and extravagations, the ancients assigned the Zodiaque 12. Degrees of Latitude.1659, Edmund Chilmead, transl., A Learned Treatise of Globes, Both Cœlestiall and Terrestriall with Their Several Uses, London: Andrew Kemb, Part 1, Chapter 2, p. 15
    • […] I don’t pretend to justify the extravagations of the multitude; who, I suppose, were as wild in their former censure, as in their present praise […]1771, Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, Volume I, The British Novelists, Volume 30, London: V.C. and J. Rivington et al., p. 136

Forms of extravagation

pluralextravagations

Origin of extravagation

From extravagate + -ion.

Questions about extravagation

What does extravagation mean?
Extravagation means a straying beyond limits; excess.
What part of speech is extravagation?
Extravagation is a noun.
What is the plural of extravagation?
The plural of extravagation is extravagations.

Words near extravagation in the dictionary

  1. extravaganzic
  2. extravagate
  3. extravagated
  4. extravagates
  5. extravagating
  6. extravagation
  7. extravagations
  8. extravagence
  9. extravagent
  10. extravaginal
  11. extravaginally

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