propinquity

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[ UK /pɹəpˈɪnkwɪti/ ]
NOUN
  1. the property of being close together
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How To Use propinquity In A Sentence

  • With exaggerated pernickertiness the older man removed his half-empty glass from propinquity with the other's. THE QUEST FOR K
  • the closest propinquity of the man whom he had most vilely wronged!- and who had grown to exist only by this perpetual poison of the direst revenge!
  • Eight weeks came and went, -- eight wonderfully happy weeks to Debby and her friend; for "propinquity" had worked more wonders than poor Mrs. Carroll knew, as the only one she saw or guessed was the utter captivation of Joe Leavenworth. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
  • I used to joke, “Nothing propinques like propinquity.” The Good Fight
  • He wondered if she really had any power to hurt him, if there resided in her any more potent charm than other women possessed, or if it were a mere sentimental befogging of his mind due to the physical propinquity of her at a time when he was weak and bruised and helpless. Poor Man's Rock
  • Carey, so powerful in propinquity, might even have ended by learning to love Tannis and marrying her, to his own worldly undoing. Further Chronicles of Avonlea
  • Ah, the propinquity of cheap life and expensive principles, of religion and banditry, of surprising honour and random cruelty.
  • Sexual relationships tend to grow with propinquity and propinquity includes propinquity of work.
  • Since propinquity is a common source of tensions, most particular attention was paid to avoiding intercommunion with other Lutherans who professed a seductive approximation of doctrinal agreement.
  • Six weeks — appropinquity — opportunity — had victimised him completely. Vanity Fair
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