Vicinage

//ˈvɪsɪnɪdʒ// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    The people of a neighbourhood. archaic
  3. 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. 4
    The area where a crime was committed, a trial is being held, or the community from which jurors are drawn. British, US
  5. 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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