Excesses
[ek'sesis]
Examples
- There was no gratitude for affection past or present to make her better bear with its excesses to the others. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- It would have been more than human in them if they had not given way to some excesses of patriotic vanity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- History can be all things to all men: nothing is easier than to summon the Terror, the Commune, lynchings in the Southern States, as witnesses to the excesses and hysterias of the mob. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In the austere system, on the contrary, those excesses are regarded with the utmost abhorrence and detestation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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