Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Extravagance.
- noun Something extravagant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Extravagance; a wandering; especially, a wandering out of or beyond the usual or proper course; a wild or licentious departure from custom or propriety; a vagary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Extravagance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic, 17th-19th centuries The characteristic of being
extravagant . - noun archaic, 17th-19th centuries A thing that is extravagant.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth
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Examples
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But design styles do tend to filter down from those rich enough for an “complete extravagancy and uncessary use of valuable materials” – because they hire architects who follow eachothers work.
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What you show is complete extravagancy and uncessary use of valuable materials.
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Though human infirmity may betray thy heedless days into the popular ways of extravagancy, yet, let not thine own depravity or the torrent of vicious times carry thee into desperate enormities in opinions, manners, or actions.
Letter to a Friend 2007
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Only we must be sure that it be a divine revelation, and that we understand it right: else we shall expose ourselves to all the extravagancy of enthusiasm, and all the error of wrong principles, if we have faith and assurance in what is not divine revelation.
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If the boundaries be not set between faith and reason, no enthusiasm or extravagancy in religion can be contradicted.
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In a good poem, whether it be epic or dramatic, as also in sonnets, epigrams, and other pieces, both judgement and fancy are required: but the fancy must be more eminent; because they please for the extravagancy, but ought not to displease by indiscretion.
Leviathan 2007
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What extravagancy is not man capable of entertaining, when once his shackled reason is led in triumph by fancy and prejudice!
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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If the boundaries be not set between faith and reason, no enthusiasm or extravagancy in religion can be contradicted.
God, Aids & Circumcision Hill, George 2005
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The Japanese history of “Tanzar and Neadarne,” by the same author, is an amiable extravagancy, interspersed with the most just reflections.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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No, sooth, sir: my determinate voyage is mere extravagancy.
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