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- noun Plural form of
extravagation .
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But of these higher metaphysicals, these fancy-bred extravagations, perhaps somewhat too much: you will dub me dreamer, if not proser -- or rather, poet, as the more modern reproach.
An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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But of these higher metaphysicals, these fancy-bred extravagations, perhaps somewhat too much: you will dub me dreamer, if not proser -- or rather, poet, as the more modern reproach.
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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While mamma and daddy were working on budgets, to cut of all extravagations, in order to have complete
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Barton) I don’t pretend to justify the extravagations of the multitude; who, I suppose, were as wild in their former censure, as in the present praise: but I shall be very glad to attend you on
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Cambridge extravagations did not lose me, nor cool for me, the esteem and regard of a single fellow collegiate, might have obtained an amnesty from worse transgressions. "
The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 James Gillman
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