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Definition of Exorbitances
1. exorbitance [n] - See also: exorbitance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exorbitances
Literary usage of Exorbitances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diary, of Thomas Burton, Esq. Member in the Parliaments of Oliver and by Thomas Burton, Goddard, Guibon (1828)
"Pictures were placed in Church-windows, and images set up at Durham, and elsewhere
f; with many other exorbitances and check for the greatness of the Barons ..."
2. The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of by Roger North (1826)
"The Lord Chief Justice Jeffries was capitally concerned in the first of these
exorbitances, and pushed matters, through all the degrees, into those excesses ..."
3. Synonyms Discriminated: A Complete Catalogue of Synonymous Words in the by Charles John Smith (1871)
"... the exorbitances it affected within the ancient and legal boundaries of the
constitution. ... exorbitances ..."
4. A Biographical History of England: from Egbert the Great to the Revolution by James Granger (1824)
"He was so far from thinking resistance unlawful, that he actually entered into
cabals for restraining the exorbitances of the crown. ..."
5. The New Haven Convention of 1778: The Boundary Line Between Connecticut and by Simeon Eben Baldwin, New Haven Colony Historical Society (1882)
"... and the real Necessity of Importing many Commodities from thence ; Wherefore,
to correct and rectify such- exorbitances, and yet to allow the Importer a ..."
6. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"I shall not recount tbe mischiefs which those exorbitances have of late wrought
... These exorbitances committed by the city, casting so great an influence ..."
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