extravagation

== English == === Etymology === From extravagate +‎ -ion. === Noun === extravagation (countable and uncountable, plural extravagations) (archaic) A straying beyond limits; excess. 1771, Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, Volume I, The British Novelists, Volume 30, London: V.C. and J. Rivington et al., p. 136,[2] […] I don’t pretend to justify the extravagations of the multitude; who, I suppose, were as wild in their former censure, as in their present praise […] ==== Related terms ==== === References === “extravagation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.