Extravagation
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Extravagation is a noun meaning (archaic) A straying beyond limits; excess.
Meaning
(archaic) A straying beyond limits; excess.
Example Sentences
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.
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 […]
Word Forms
- extravagations
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include extravagancy, extravagance, overgoing, extravagantness, extravagence, excession.
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