Noun

(wikipedia vicinity) (vicinities)

Proximity, or the state of being near.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;

Neighbourhood, or the nearby region.

Approximate size or amount.

Noun

(propinquities)

Nearness or proximity.

* 1904 , , "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 , et al, "The Urban Place and the Non-Place Urban Realm''" in ''Explorations into Urban Structure :

*:Community without propinquity

*1973 , , 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 , :

*:There was also the question of Julius’s glandular responses to the almost daily propinquity of his Empress, so naked under her lawn.

*1993 , (Foreign Affairs, Summer 1993), 29:

*:Geographical propinquity gives rise to conflicting territorial claims from Bosnia to Mindanao.

Affiliation or similarity.

* 1608 , ":

*:"[...]Here I disclaim my all my paternal care,/Propinquity , and property of blood[...]"

*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 , :

*: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 , .)

*:Propinquity and corruption don't always go side by side.