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EXORBITANCY

Definition: EXORBITANCY

EXORBITANCY

Noun

1. 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "EXORBITANCY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

Modern Translations: EXORBITANCY

Language Translations for "EXORBITANCY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

teprim (excess, exorbitance, extravagance, presumption). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

крайност (exorbitance, extreme, extremeness, extremity, immoderation), прекаленост (exorbitance, extravagance, immoderation, surfeit). (various references)

   

Czech

  

přehnanost (exorbitance). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

túlhajtás (exorbitance, overindulgence), mértéktelenség (excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, incontinence, insobriety, intemperance). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

exorbitancyay

   

Portuguese

  

exorbitância (excess, exorbitant). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

caracter excesiv (exorbitance). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

непомерность (exorbitance). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

prekomernost (exorbitance), precenjenost (exorbitance). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

exorbitancia (exorbitance, extravagance). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

orimlighet (absurdity, absurdness, bull, exorbitance, incongruity), omåttlighet (debauchery, excess, exorbitance, extravagance, intemperance), obillighet (exorbitance), övermått (excess, exorbitance, exuberance, over abundance, plethora, surfeit). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

надмірність (excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, extreme, nimiety, plethora, profusion, rampancy, redundance, redundancy, surfeit), беззаконня (anomy, exorbitance, lawlessness). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự đòi hỏi quá đáng (exorbitance). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: EXORBITANCY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-i-n-o-r-t-x-y"

-2 letters: baronetcy, cabinetry.

-3 letters: acerbity, anoretic, anorexic, bacterin, baritone, baryonic, barytone, boracite, caryotin, corybant, creation, enactory, exaction, obtainer, reaction, reobtain, taborine.

-4 letters: aconite, aerobic, anorexy, anxiety, baronet, barytic, bayonet, bicorne, bornite, botanic, cabinet, carbine, carotin, ceratin, certain, cointer, corbina, creatin, cyanite, enactor, erotica, exactor, exciton, excitor, exotica, iceboat, inexact, nectary, niobate, noticer, reboant, taborin.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-i-n-o-r-t-x-y"
 

+3 letters: extraembryonic.

 

+4 letters: decarboxylating, decarboxylation.

 

+5 letters: decarboxylations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: EXORBITANCY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 58 4F 52 42 49 54 41 4E 43 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    -..-    ---    .-.    -...    ..    -    .-    -.    -.-.    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01011000 01001111 01010010 01000010 01001001 01010100 01000001 01001110 01000011 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#88 &#79 &#82 &#66 &#73 &#84 &#65 &#78 &#67 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0058 004F 0052 0042 0049 0054 0041 004E 0043 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3958495236435435483759

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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