Word Meanings - CONVICINITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Immediate vicinity; neighborhood. The convicinity and contiguity of the two parishes. T. Warton.

IMMEDIATE
1. Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact. You are the most immediate to our throne. Shak. 2. Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant. "Assemble we immediate council." Shak.
NEIGHBORHOOD
1. The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity. Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighborhood. Ld. Lytton. 2. A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which
CONVICINITY
Immediate vicinity; neighborhood. The convicinity and contiguity of the two parishes. T. Warton.
IMMEDIATENESS
The quality or relations of being immediate in manner, place, or time; exemption from second or interventing causes. Bp. Hall.
IMMEDIATELY
1. In an immediate manner; without intervention of any other person or thing; proximately; directly; -- opposed to mediately; as, immediately contiguous. God's acceptance of it either immediately by himself, or mediately by the hands of the bishop.
VICINITY
from vicus a row of houses, a village; akin to Gr. v a house, vi to enter, Goth. weihs town: cf. OF. vicinité. Cf. Diocese, Economy, 1. The quality or state of being near, or not remote; nearness; propinquity; proximity; as, the value
CONTIGUITY
The state of being contiguous; intimate association; nearness; proximity. The convicinity and contiguity of the two parishes. T. Warton.