Exorbitance

{ Ex*or"bi*tance (?), Ex*or"bi*tan*cy (?), }, n. A going out of or beyond the usual or due limit; hence, enormity; extravagance; gross deviation from rule, right, or propriety; as, the exorbitances of the tongue or of deportment; exorbitance of demands. "A curb to your exorbitancies." Dryden.

The lamentable exorbitances of their superstitions.
Bp. Hall.