extravagation en · NOUN
Etymology
From extravagate + -ion.
Meanings
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(archaic, countable, uncountable) A straying beyond limits; excess.
By reaso[n] of which their digressions and extravagations, the ancients assigned the Zodiaque 12. Degrees of Latitude.
1659, Edmund Chilmead, transl., A Learned Treatise of Globes, Both Cœlestiall and Terrestriall with Their Several Uses, London: Andrew Kemb, Part 1, Chapter 2, p. 15:Such tropes expose the extravagation whereby capitalism is decked out as the incontestable standard of human behavior and culture.
2010, Paul A. Griffith, Afro-Caribbean Poetry and Ritual, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, Preface, p. x: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 […]
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| extravagations | Number=Plur | lexicographic |