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extravagations

extravagations is the plural of extravagation.

Meaning of extravagation

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

Questions about extravagations

What is extravagations the plural of?
Extravagations is the plural of extravagation.

Words near extravagations in the dictionary

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

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