exuperancy

English

Noun

exuperancy

1. (obsolete) the degree by which one thing exceeds another
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Cameleon”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 163:

     Fortunius Licetus […] hath very ingeniouſly attempted it, deducing the cauſe hereof from an equall conformity of naturall heat and moiſture, at leaſt no conſiderable exuperancy in either;

Synonyms

• exuperance