extravagation

extravagation (countable and uncountable, plural extravagations)

1. (archaic) A straying beyond limits; excess.
   • 1659, Edmund Chilmead, transl., A Learned Treatise of Globes, Both Cœlestiall and Terrestriall with Their Several Uses‎^[1], London: Andrew Kemb, Part 1, Chapter 2, p. 15:

     By reaso[n] of which their digressions and extravagations, the ancients assigned the Zodiaque 12. Degrees of Latitude.

   • 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 […]

   • 2010, Paul A. Griffith, Afro-Caribbean Poetry and Ritual‎^[3], New York: Palgrave Macmillan, Preface, p. x:

     Such tropes expose the extravagation whereby capitalism is decked out as the incontestable standard of human behavior and culture.

• “extravagation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.