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noun

Extravagance n.

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

The state of being extravagant, wild, or prodigal beyond bounds of propriety or duty; want of moderation; excess; especially, undue expenditure of money; vaid and superfluous expense; prodigality; as, extravagance of anger, love, expression, imagination, demands. "Some verses of my own, Maximin and Almanzor, cry vengeance on me for their extravagance." "The income of three dukes was enough to supply her extravagance."

Synonyms: Wildness; irregularity; excess; prodigality; profusion; waste; lavishness; unreasonableness; recklessness.

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Etymology of 'Extravagance'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Extravagance" Quotes from Famous Books

... appeared. The Richmond yokels did not like the look of that reticule. They felt that sufficient demand had already been made upon their scant purses, considering the meagerness of the entertainment, and they dreaded being lured to further extravagance. ...

— The Elusive Pimpernel • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

... the purse, the independence of the judges, an elective Legislative Council, and a curtailment of the arbitrary powers and privileges of the Executive, which led to gross jobbery, favouritism, and extravagance. As in Upper Canada, the greatest practical grievance, though it assumed a somewhat different form, was the disposal of the public lands. Here, too, there were extensive and undeveloped Clergy Reserves for the Episcopalian Church, as ...

— The Framework of Home Rule • Erskine Childers

... times round with the service. Objections were made to this, as if it would be thought mean; but I put on a stern visage, and told them, that if they did more I would rise up, and rebuke and forbid the extravagance. So three services became the uttermost modicum at all burials. This was doing much, but it was not all that I wished ...

— The Annals of the Parish • John Galt

... conventional extravagance of this panegyric exist some useful grains of criticism. One of the most clearly expressed and continually reiterated aims of prose fiction, as of other species of writing from time immemorial, was that of conveying to the reader a moral through ...

— The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood • George Frisbie Whicher

... by their physical conditions from the activities of life. Mme de La Fayette, who was perhaps something of a hypochondriac, tossed all day among the pillows of that golden bed with the extravagance of which the austerity of Mme de Maintenon upbraided her. La Rochefoucauld, tormented by the gout, lay stretched at her side in his long chair, and the days went by in endless discussion, endless balancing of right and wrong, much gossip, much reading of books new and old, and ...

— Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France • Edmund Gosse

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