Meaning of desmesura | Babel Free

Definitions

1. excess (lack of moderation)
   feminine, uncountable
2. excess (disproportionate action)
   countable, feminine

Examples

“Quan el maig del mil noucents seixanta vuit, els estudiants de Paris cometeren desmesures —convé precisar, per contrast, que no hi ha costum enlloc de qualificar de desmesura les desmesures legalitzades, i consti que n'hi ha— vaig sentir com un bon home s'exclamava: "Potser tindran raó en el que demanen, però la forma de fer-ho és totalment incorrecta".”

When, in May of nineteen sixty-eight, the students of Paris committed excesses--it should be noted, by contrast, that there is no custom of describing legalised excesses as excesses, and it's obvious these exist--I felt that simple souls exclaimed, "Maybe they are right in what they are asking but their way of going about it is all wrong."

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