Ex-ôr'bi-tance or Ex-ôr'bi-tan-cy, n.

n. [Sp. exorbitancia, It. exorbitanza.] A going beyond or out of the usual limit; hence, enormity; extravagance; a deviation from rule or the ordinary limits of right or propriety; as, the exorbitancies of the tongue or of deportment; exorbitancy of charges or demands.

To such exorbitancy were things arrived. Evelyn.

The reverence of my presence may be a curb to your exorbitancies. Dryden.