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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

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.

exorbitancy ‎(plural exorbitancies)

Alternative form of exorbitance
The reverence of my presence may be a curb to your exorbitancies. — Dryden.