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Propinquity
//pɹəˈpɪŋ.kwɪ.ti// noun
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Noun
- 1 Nearness or proximity countable, literary, uncountable
"Some experimental spirits could not resist the diversion of throwing Varick and his former wife together, and there were those who thought he found a zest in the propinquity."
- 2 the property of being close together wordnet
- 3 Affiliation or similarity. countable, literary, uncountable
"Heere I diſclaime all my Paternall care, / Propinquity and property of blood, / And as a ſtranger to my heart and me, / Hold thee from this for euer."
Etymology
From propinqu(ent) + -ity, from Middle English propinquite, from Middle French propinquité or Latin propinquitās, from propinquus (“neighbouring”) (from prop(e) (“near”) + (h)inc (“hence”) + -uus).
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