What does extravagation mean?
Extravagation means (archaic) A straying beyond limits; excess..
Extravagation
Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Meaning
(archaic) A straying beyond limits; excess..
Example Sentences
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 […]
By reaso[n] of which their digressions and extravagations, the ancients assigned the Zodiaque 12. Degrees of Latitude.
Such tropes expose the extravagation whereby capitalism is decked out as the incontestable standard of human behavior and culture.
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Antonyms for extravagation
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Word Forms
- extravagations
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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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