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[ME. propinquite, a. obs. F. propinquité (c 1240 in Godef.), ad. L. propinquitās, -tātem nearness, f. propinqu-us: see propinque.]
Nearness, closeness, proximity: a. in space: Neighbourhood.
c1460J. Metham Wks. (E.E.T.S.) 148 He concludyth..that the mone schuld, for her propynqwyte, sundry indysposycion..cause. 1570Levins Manip. 110 24 Propinquitie, propinquitas. 1601Holland Pliny II. 372 By reason of the propinquity and neighborhood of that region. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Wind, The propinquity of the Sea, being to be consider'd. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 307/2 It should not be in too close propinquity to the stable.
b. in blood or relationship: Near or close kinship.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. ii. pr. iii. 25 (Camb. MS.) The moost presyous kynde of any propinquite or alyaunce þat may ben. 1387–8T. Usk Test. Love ii. ii. (Skeat) I. 101 She..maketh nigh cosinage, ther neuer propinquite ne alyaunce in lyue was, ne shulde haue be. 1558Knox First Blast (Arb.) 55 It is not birth onely nor propinquitie of blood. 1613–18Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626) 105 The next day..hee put her away, pretending..propinquity of blood. 1766Blackstone Comm. II. xiv. 234 Thus in the second degree, the issue of George and Cecilia Stiles and of Andrew and Esther Baker..are each in the same degree of propinquity. 1880Muirhead Gaius iii. §27 He does not call them in the second class immediately after the sui heredes,..but in the third class, on the ground of propinquity.
c. in nature, disposition, belief, association, etc.: Similarity, affinity.
1586A. Day Eng. Secretary ii. (1625) 117 An annexed propinquity or opposition of good and bad, vertue and vice. 1650T. Vaughan Anima Magica 8 There is in Nature a Certain Chain, or subordinate propinquity of Complexions between Visibles, and invisibles. 1823Gillies Aristotle's Rhet. ii. x. 297 The objects of envy must always be characterised by nearness in time, place, age, reputation, in short by a sort of propinquity.
d. in time: Near approach, nearness.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vii i. 341 Thereby is declared the propinquity of their desolation. 1825Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Superannuated Man, Each day used to be individually felt by me..in its distance from, or propinquity to, the next Sunday. |