Proximate vs Proximately - What's the difference?
proximate | proximately |
Close or closest; adjacent.
* J. S. Harford
* T. Burnet
(legal) Immediately preceding or following in a chain of causation.
About to take place; impending.
(linguistics) A grammatical marker in the Algonquian (and some other) languages for a principal third person
As an adjective proximate
is close or closest; adjacent.As a noun proximate
is (linguistics) a grammatical marker in the algonquian (and some other) languages for a principal third person.As an adverb proximately is
in a proximate manner, position, or degree; immediately.proximate
English
Adjective
(-)- proximate ancestors
- the proximate natural causes of it [the deluge]