exorbitancy
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editexorbitancy (countable and uncountable, plural exorbitancies)
- Alternative form of exorbitance
- 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act III, page 29:
- […] the Reverence of my Preſence may be a curb to your Exorbitancies.
References
edit- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.