adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an exorbitant manner or degree; at an exorbitant rate.

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a. 1635.  Sibbes, Serm. John xiv. (1636), 12. The affections are never stirred and raised up irregularly, and exorbitantly, but Sathan joynes with them.

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1668.  Clarendon, Contempl. Ps., Tracts (1727), 604. Using the Power he trusted them with so exorbitantly.

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1693.  Congreve, Double-Dealer, III. x. (1694), 41. The old fat Fool that Paints so exorbitantly.

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1711.  Vind. Sacheverell, 20. I know you to be exorbitantly wicked.

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1837.  Syd. Smith, Lett. to Singleton, Wks. 1859, II. 257/1. Incomes … exorbitantly and absurdly great.

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1864.  Mrs. Carlyle, Lett., III. 220. I get plenty of cream, quite good, paying for it exorbitantly.

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