Definition of "propinquity" [pro•pin•qui•ty]

• Proximity; nearness. (noun)
• Kinship. (noun)
• Similarity in nature. (noun)

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• "Carey, so powerful in propinquity, might even have ended by learning to love Tannis and marrying her, to his own worldly undoing."
• "But it is not the way for a man and a woman, in propinquity, to maintain a definite, unwavering distance asunder."
• "He was not only the male heir in propinquity of blood, but his experienced years and known virtues excited all true Scots to place him on the throne."