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Vicinage
//ˈvɪsɪnɪdʒ// noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A surrounding district; a neighbourhood. archaic
"She is the only flower of fragrance that has blown in this vicinage for ten years past, or will for ten years to come […]."
- 2 The people of a neighbourhood. archaic
- 3 The state of living near something; proximity, closeness.
"In the few years that she had lived here, a stranger herself, in some sort—not accustomed, as was her husband, to a lifelong vicinage to the pygmy burial-ground—she had developed no receptivity to that uncanny idea of a race of dwarfs."
- 4 The area where a crime was committed, a trial is being held, or the community from which jurors are drawn. British, US
- 5 A geographical division of the New Jersey Superior Court, covering one or more counties, for judicial administration and the assignment of venue to an action within the Superior Court New-Jersey
Etymology
From Old French visnage, respelled to more closer match its Latin source vīcīnus (“neighbor”).
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