Meaning of exorbitation | Babel Free

Definitions

The act of leaving the usual path or course; deviation.

archaic, countable, uncountable

Examples

“Nothing they are ſaue a meere perturbation / Of common Nature, an exorbitation / And bringing out of ſquare;[…]”

“It does not recount how mercifully the captain of our steamer found a valet de place for us, and told him to take care of us, and bring us back at a given moment. Nor how our payment of ten francs for three persons, instead of Heaven knows what exorbitation, was owing to this circumstance.”

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