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Definition of Extravagancies
1. extravagancy [n] - See also: extravagancy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Extravagancies
Literary usage of Extravagancies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... as the father's death had released Carinus from the control of fear or decency,
he displayed to the Romans the extravagancies of Elagabalus, ..."
2. American Poets and Their Theology by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1916)
"We would not deny that Holmes had some excuse for his denunciations, in the
extravagancies of certain hyper-Calvinists. His writing has perhaps softened the ..."
3. English Synonymes Explained: In Alphabetical Order ; with Copious by George Crabb (1883)
"It is necessary to make abstract* of deeds or judicial proceeding*. I shall lay
before my readers an abridgment of some few of their extravagancies, ..."
4. An Inglorious Columbus, Or, Evidence that Hwui Shăn and a Party of Buddhist by Edward Payson Vining (1885)
"... Sr.—Its divisions— Groups of mountains—Taoista of the fourth century—The
spirits governing the earth—extravagancies of the work—First mention of the ..."
5. Civil Service of Great Britain by Robert Moses (1914)
"... put the matter tersely: The question now stands pretty clear of all the real
and imputed extravagancies of its advocates and opponents. ..."
6. Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister to Henry the by Maximilien de Béthune Sully (1778)
"being contradicted in your extravagancies." Perceiving that the calm manner in
which I ... extravagancies ..."
7. A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and by William Tooke, William Beloe, Robert Nares (1798)
"... could not flatter, cringe, or meanly humour the extravagancies of any man.
I am fure I knew him better than any of ..."
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