Meaning of extravagation | Babel Free

Definitions

A straying beyond limits; excess.

archaic, countable, uncountable

Examples

“By reaso[n] of which their digressions and extravagations, the ancients assigned the Zodiaque 12. Degrees of Latitude.”

“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 […]”

“Such tropes expose the extravagation whereby capitalism is decked out as the incontestable standard of human behavior and culture.”

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