exuperancy
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[edit]Noun
[edit]exuperancy
- (obsolete) the degree by which one thing exceeds another
- 1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Cameleon”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 163:
- Fortunius Licetus […] hath very ingeniouſly attempted it, deducing the cauſe hereof from an equall conformity of naturall heat and moiſture, at leaſt no conſiderable exuperancy in either;