Read full poem →4 This sonnet along with his Autumn Song is now and again offered
at an exorbitant price to collectors : Verses / By / Dante Gabriel Rossetti/
London: Privately Printed: / 1881.
Dictionary Entry
Exceeding proper limits; extravagant; excessive or unduly high.
In a Sentence
“It's a nice car, but they are charging an exorbitant price for it.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
prices exorbitantprice exorbitant. exorbitantrates exorbitantdemands exorbitantinterest exorbitantexorbitant pay
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Poetry examples for “exorbitant”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →usurpers.--There is no doubt, that, under this allegory, Spenser meant
to represent the exorbitant power of Lord Burleigh; and he afterwards
complains, that his verse occasioned his falling into a "mighty peer's
Read full poem →One to another sighed and cried:
The exorbitant dreams of beggary,
That idleness had borne to pride,