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

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

Pantagruel one day, to refresh himself of his study, went a-walking towards St. Marcel's suburbs, to see the extravagancy of the Gobeline building, and to taste of their spiced bread.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

No, 'sooth, sir; my determinate voyage is mere extravagancy.

From Twelfth Night by Shakespeare, William

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