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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
Joseph Addison

Meaning of "exorbitance" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF EXORBITANCE

exorbitance  [ɪɡˈzɔːbɪtəns] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EXORBITANCE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Exorbitance is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES EXORBITANCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of exorbitance in the English dictionary

The definition of exorbitance in the dictionary is excessiveness; extravagance; immoderation.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EXORBITANCE


acquittance
əˈkwɪtəns
admittance
ədˈmɪtəns
appetence
ˈæpɪtəns
capacitance
kəˈpæsɪtəns
competence
ˈkɒmpɪtəns
concomitance
kənˈkɒmɪtəns
emittance
ɪˈmɪtəns
hesitance
ˈhezɪtəns
immunocompetence
ˌɪmjʊnəʊˈkɒmpɪtəns
impenitence
ɪmˈpɛnɪtəns
incompetence
ɪnˈkɒmpɪtəns
inhabitance
ɪnˈhæbɪtəns
inheritance
ɪnˈhɛrɪtəns
intermittence
ˌɪntəˈmɪtəns
latence
ˈleɪtəns
penitence
ˈpenɪtəns
pittance
ˈpɪtəns
quittance
ˈkwɪtəns
remittance
rɪˈmɪtəns
transmittance
trænzˈmɪtəns

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EXORBITANCE

exopodite
exopoditic
exor.
exorability
exorable
exoration
exorbitancy
exorbitant
exorbitantly
exorbitate
exorciser
exorcism
exorcist
exorcistic
exorcistical
exorcize
exorcizer
exordia
exordial
exordium

WORDS THAT END LIKE EXORBITANCE

acceptance
acquaintance
advance
amount of substance
assistance
circumstance
Constance
court of first instance
distance
for instance
importance
instance
long-distance
reluctance
repentance
resistance
stance
substance
the distance
the Resistance
walking distance

Synonyms and antonyms of exorbitance in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «EXORBITANCE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «exorbitance» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of exorbitance

Translation of «exorbitance» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EXORBITANCE

Find out the translation of exorbitance to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of exorbitance from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «exorbitance» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

exorbitance
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

exorbitance
570 millions of speakers

English

exorbitance
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अत्यधिकता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بهظ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

exorbitance
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

exorbitância
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আতিশয্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

outrance
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ketenangan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Maßlosigkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

exorbitance
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

엄청남
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Exorbitance
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

quá độ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

exorbitance
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उधळपट्टी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

aşırılık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

exorbitance
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

exorbitance
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

exorbitance
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

caracter excesiv
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ξεχείλωμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

buitensporig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

exorbitance
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

storhet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of exorbitance

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EXORBITANCE»

The term «exorbitance» is used very little and occupies the 156.558 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EXORBITANCE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about exorbitance

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QUOTES WITH «EXORBITANCE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word exorbitance.
1
Joseph Addison
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EXORBITANCE»

Discover the use of exorbitance in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to exorbitance and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Contemporary Russian: Contemporary Russian Translation Guide ...
... excees of, exceeding, exceedance, superfluity, intemperance, extravagance, exorbitance, extremeness превышающие (noun) - excess, excess of, exceeding, exceedance, superfluity, intemperance, extravagance, exorbitance, extremeness  ...
L L Downing, 2013
2
Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular
The social economy of the narrations—what could be revealed, what had to be concealed, what had to be forgotten for new inventions of the sign— reveals the exorbitance of the embattled iconic sign. Too many meanings chafe against each  ...
Bishnupriya Ghosh, 2011
3
Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference
This brings us to the second level of 'exorbitance' in Antony and Cleopatra. Antony's brand of exorbitance is erotic or existential rather than imperialistic. If ' exorbitance' is a quasi-divine dissatisfaction with the limitedness of one's world, then ...
John Gillies, 1994
4
Joyce's "Ithaca"
This is a positive exorbitance as opposed to the negative exorbitance of the entropic death of the universe imagined by Stephen as the product of his personal-cosmic equation. A similar positive or sublime exorbitance is to be found in the ...
Andrew Gibson, 1996
5
German Corporate Governance in International and European ...
Exorbitance. (Hyperspeculation). We are not talking about the consequences of inescapable natural catastrophes.65 It was always people acting: the company managers responsible (directors, members of the supervisory board), the auditors ...
Jean J. du Plessis, Bernhard Großfeld, Claus Luttermann, 2012
6
The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary ...
Exorbitance. and. Structures. of. Feeling. “Exorbitant” derives from the Latin ex- orbitare, to go off track. The exorbitant praise Balbuena lavishes on imperial New Spain lives up to the word's etymology, first of all, by incurring exoticism.
Stephanie Merrim, 2012
7
The United States Magazine and Democratic Review
The public demand will always command the full supply which it desires; while exorbitance of price in the latter will always defeat, and thus rectify, itself, both by discouraging consumption, and by calling into existence rival productions of ...
8
Hollywood's African American Films: The Transition to Sound
Rather than following the predictable course of reading the films as simply more of the same in classical Hollywood cinema, the book highlights the exorbitance of this period of film history relative to those that immediately precede and follow it.
Ryan Jay Friedman, 2011
9
Hearing History: A Reader
But, as the work of Jacques Derrida has so amply suggested, the distancing and exteriorization of the voice accomplished in all forms of acoustic and graphic technology also introduces absence, spacing and exorbitance into the voice.
Mark Michael Smith, 2004
10
Arts of Possession: The Middle English Household Imaginary
What is deferred in this description is not exactly the giant's bodily exorbitance, but the problem of exorbitance itself: that a reckoning of the giant's size can be left until last suggests that its deferral is precisely the repression of something more ...
D. Vance Smith, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EXORBITANCE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term exorbitance is used in the context of the following news items.
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Sloppy seconds are served up in Self/less
Directed by Tarsem Singh, who seems too bored or exhausted to repeat the visual exorbitance of his earlier films The Cell and The Fall, this ... «Straight.com, Jul 15»
2
Grand Prairie's Only Hospital Is the Worst Price Gouger in All of Texas
... Texas General Hospital was routinely sticking people with medical bills that are exorbitant, even by typical hospital-exorbitance standards. «Dallas Observer, Jun 15»
3
In Hawaii, Surf, Sun and Snow
Maybe its exorbitance seemed too out of place for two travelers who had spent the last several days discovering the unpretentious beauty of ... «New York Times, May 15»
4
Prosperity Gospel
Alexander writes, “I was arguing against overabundance, hoarding, greed, exorbitance, and consumerism—and for enough for a healthy life. «First Things, May 15»
5
Thousands gather in Ballard to celebrate Syttende Mai; King of …
Bunaders were brandished. Pirates screamed. Lutefisk was eaten with the zeal and exorbitance only observed in typical Scandinavian stoicism ... «Ballard News Tribune, May 15»
6
Very Wealthy Woman Wants Out of $32.5M One57 Apartment
... in one year. Just remember, Bill Ackman's $91.5 apartment that he bought "for fun" (and flipping) far outweighs Moores in sheer exorbitance. «Curbed NY, May 15»
7
Late fees more feasible after the Full Federal Court overturns …
In finding that the fees were not penalties, Allsop CJ reiterated that it was not the ANZ's onus to disprove exorbitance and extravagance at the ... «Lexology, Apr 15»
8
You can now buy a guide on how to pee in space
A beverage to even rival the exorbitance of Melbourne's coffee scene. But if you think that's a bit extreme, you must have missed the memo ... «The Vine, Apr 15»
9
Exorbitant House of the Week, Downton Abbey Edition
Still, the house's sheer exorbitance is enough to pull you out of any sense of time and place. Step inside and take a a look around. «Washington City Paper, Apr 15»
10
Paciocco v ANZ Banking Group Limited - Federal Court upholds …
It is not necessary for a bank to prove actual damage to justify a late payment fee. The onus to prove extravagance and exorbitance is with the ... «Lexology, Apr 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Exorbitance [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/exorbitance>. May 2024 ».
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