extravagancy

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The Chinese regard the West's failure to make use of excrement as "extreme extravagancy," says Wittwer.

From Time Magazine Archive

No enthusiasm ever reached to such a pitch of extravagancy as that: a spirit may be an illusion; a body is a real thing, an object of sense, in which there can be no mistake.

From Evidence of Christianity by Paley, William

Wherefore, they, looking upon what the captains did to be, as they called it, a fruit of the extravagancy of their wild and foolish fancies, rather despised them than feared them.'

From Bunyan by Froude, James Anthony

I had thought all such extravagancy perished with the Launcelot and Palomides of your book.

From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by Cabell, James Branch

It can often be proved, when any of them exhibit marked extravagancy, that such extravagancy dates back as far as the second or third century.

From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William