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Home Dictionary Name: exorbitantExorbitance
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...
Exorbitant
Departing from an orbit or usual track hence deviating from the usual or due course going beyond the appointed rules or established limits of right or propriety excessive extravagant enormous inordinate as exorbitant appetites and passions exorbitant charges demands or claims...
Exorbitantly
In an exorbitant excessive or irregular manner enormously...
usury
usury [Medieval Latin usuria interest, lending at exorbitant interest, alteration of Latin usura use, interest (i.e., sum paid for use of money), from usus use] 1 : the lending of money at exorbitant interest rates ;specif : the crime of charging or contracting to charge an unlawfully high rate of interest 2 : a rate or amount of interest charged in usury compare legal interest at interest ...
Exorbitate
To go out of the track to deviate...
Usury
Usury, any reward taken for the use of money. Usura est commodum certum quod propter usum rei (vel 'ris) mutuat' recipitur; sed, secundario sperare de aliqua retributione, ad voluntatem ejus qui mutuatus est, hoc non est vitiosum. 5 Rep. 70.-(Usury is a certain benefit which is received for the use of a thing (or of money) lent; but, secondly, to hope for a certain return at the option of the party who borrowed, this is not vicious.) The term is usually applied to the taking of exorbitant interest, or of interest of a greater amount than is allowed by law. Eleven statutes, from 37 Hen. 8, c. 9, to 13 & 14 Vict. c. 56, fixing the legal rates of interest, were all repealed in 1854 by 17 & 18 Vict. c. 90, together with 'all 'the then' existing laws against usury,' but the interest which pawnbrokers (see that title) may take is still restricted bylaw, and the 109th Canon, including usury amongst other offences for which an offender may be presented, has not only not been expressly repealed...
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