exorbitance

[ ig-zawr-bi-tuh ns ]

/ ɪgˈzɔr bɪ təns /

the quality of being exorbitant; excessiveness.

Sometimes ex·or·bi·tan·cy.

Origin of exorbitance

1400–50; late Middle English exorbitaunce; see exorbitant, -ance

Unrea′son, lack of reason; Unrea′sonableness, the state or quality of being unreasonable: exorbitance.

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) |Various
As extravagance is excess in outlay, exorbitance is excess in demands, and especially in pecuniary demands upon others.

English Synonyms and Antonyms |James Champlin Fernald
It was borne upon them that this exorbitance, a strange incident in their own lives, was to these others a daily occurrence.

The Furnace |Rose Macaulay
The intolerable oppression upon trade, from the exorbitance of wages and insolence of mariners, would be taken off.

An Essay upon Projects |Daniel Defoe

The treaty meets with difficulties in the ratification,—perhaps the exorbitance of the price may occasion them.

The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. I (of 9) |Thomas Jefferson