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propinquity

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11 lettersPronunciation /pɹəˈpɪŋ.kwɪ.ti/Part of speech nounSorted iinoppqrtuyStarts with PEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. the property of being close together

Word origin

From propinqu(ent) + -ity, from Middle English propinquite, from Middle French propinquité or Latin propinquitās, from propinquus (“neighbouring”) (from prop(e) (“near”) + (h)inc (“hence”) + -uus).

Used in a sentence

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

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