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extravagation

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A straying beyond limits; excess.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable

Examples

  • 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, [...] 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 [...]

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History

Etymology

From extravagate + -ion.