Ex*or"bi*tance (?), Ex*or"bi*tan*cy (?),, n.
A going out of or beyond the usual or due limit; hence, enormity; extravagance; gross deviation from rule, right, or propriety; as, the exorbitances of the tongue or of deportment; exorbitance of demands.
"a curb to your
exorbitancies."
Dryden.
The lamentable exorbitances of their superstitions.
Bp. Hall.
© Webster 1913.