propinquity
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /pɹəˈpɪŋ.kwɪ.ti/
propinquity
- Nearness or proximity.
- 1904, Edith Wharton, "The Other Two":
- 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.
- 1964, Melvin M. Webber et al, "The Urban Place and the Non-Place Urban Realm" in Explorations into Urban Structure:
- Community without propinquity
- 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin 2001, p. 70:
- Surely, too, it would be a waste of an agent, for after several hours of propinquity I could scarcely fail to recognise him in the future.
- 1985, Anthony Burgess, The Kingdom of the Wicked:
- There was also the question of Julius’s glandular responses to the almost daily propinquity of his Empress, so naked under her lawn.
- 1993, Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations? (Foreign Affairs, Summer 1993), 29:
- Geographical propinquity gives rise to conflicting territorial claims from Bosnia to Mindanao.
- 1904, Edith Wharton, "The Other Two":
- Affiliation or similarity.
- 1608, William Shakespeare, The New Clarendon Shakespeare, King Lear, Oxford University Press: 1957, act I scene I: 112-115:
- "Here I disclaim my all my paternal care,
- Propinquity, and property of blood,
- And as a stranger to my heart and me
- Hold thee from this for ever. ..."
- 1970, Michel Foucault, The Order of Things (English translation), Routledge 2002, p. xviii:
- What is impossible is not the propinquity of the things listed, but the very site on which their propinquity would be possible.
- 1979, Ybarra v. Illinois, 444 U.S. 85, 86 (1979):
- [A] person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not, without more, give rise to probable cause to search that person.
- 1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld:
- Decent people out there. Russ wants to believe they are still assembled in some recognizable manner, the kindred unit at the radio, old lines and ties and propinquities.
- 2012, Andrew Marr (heard at the Leveson inquiry.)
- Propinquity and corruption don't always go side by side.
- 1608, William Shakespeare, The New Clarendon Shakespeare, King Lear, Oxford University Press: 1957, act I scene I: 112-115:
- (proximity) appropinquity (obsolete)
- Russian: бли́зость
- Spanish: propincuidad, proximidad
- Russian: родство́
- Spanish: propincuidad, projimidad
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