Both Uses of
exorbitant
in
Mansfield Park
- Their remoteness and unpunctuality, or their exorbitant charges and frauds, will be drawing forth bitter lamentations.†
Chpt 22 *
- Miss Crawford, a little suspicious and resentful of a certain tone of voice, and a certain half-look attending the last expression of his hope, made a hasty finish of her dealings with William Price; and securing his knave at an exorbitant rate, exclaimed, "There, I will stake my last like a woman of spirit.†
Chpt 25
Definition:
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(exorbitant) a lot more than is reasonable or typical -- often said of price