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Definition of Extravagance

1. Noun. The quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth. "We were surprised by the extravagance of his description"

2. Noun. The trait of spending extravagantly.

3. Noun. Excessive spending.

Definition of Extravagance

1. n. A wandering beyond proper limits; an excursion or sally from the usual way, course, or limit.

Definition of Extravagance

1. Noun. excessive or superfluous expenditure of money ¹

2. Noun. prodigality as in '''extravagance''' of anger, love, expression, imagination, or demands. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Extravagance

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Extravagance

extratextual extratextuality extrathoracic extrathymic extrathymically extrathyroidal hypermetabolism extratidal extratracheal extratropical extratropics

extratubal extraught extrauterine extrauterine gestation extravagance (current term) extravagances extravagancies extravagancy extravagant extravagantly

extravagantness extravaganza extravaganzas extravagate extravagated extravagates extravagating extravagation extravagations

Literary usage of Extravagance

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"Thus, if a husband accuses his wife of extravagance in dress, she The Twelve ... turns the tables upon him " by accusing him of extravagance in his, club. ..."

2. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by James Anthony Froude (1881)
"... infinite, and from the royal palace to the extravagance the expenses of universal peculation were police stations on the Tweed all classes of persons in ..."

3. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1859)
"WHAT IS extravagance 7 It is not every man who realizes that extravagance is but a relative term. Л\'е often hear persons of limited means, for instance, ..."

4. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell (1901)
"I told him that at a gentleman's house where there was thought to be such extravagance or bad management that he was living much beyond his income, ..."

5. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"Francis, who had vainly hoped to be admitted to participate in the meeting, rivalled Wingfield in the extravagance of his assurances. ..."

6. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1906)
"A taste for flashy jewellery was gratified at the expense of the State.8 Fraud and extravagance went hand in hand. The amounts of the bills were raised ..."

7. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"of extravagance in which the habit amounts to vice, and quite deserves all the social reprobation it receives, and more than it is likely to get. ..."

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