Meaning of Vicinage | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surrounding district; a neighbourhood.
   archaic
2. The people of a neighbourhood.
   archaic
3. The state of living near something; proximity, closeness.
4. The area where a crime was committed, a trial is being held, or the community from which jurors are drawn.
   British, US
5. A geographical division of the New Jersey Superior Court, covering one or more counties, for judicial administration and the assignment of venue to an action within the Superior Court
   New-Jersey

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Examples

“She is the only flower of fragrance that has blown in this vicinage for ten years past, or will for ten years to come⟳ […].”

“but scarce had I drawn back mine arms, strained the outward flexure of my knee-joints, and was fixed in an apt disposure to take⟳ the corvetto primo and leap-valiant of the cour, when methought suddenly there came in and did appear⟳ before me mine ancient, most reverend and singular good friend, the rector of Saynt Andrew of S—, nearest in neighbourhood, but not of mine own⟳ cure, myself being of D— manor house in the same vicinage,—who astonished beyond measure⟳ at my so extasied gladness, demanded wherefore I did carry⟳ myself on this wise?”

“It was as still as a church on a week-day: the pattering rain⟳ on the forest leaves was the only sound⟳ audible in its vicinage.”

“In the few years that she had lived here, a stranger herself, in some sort⟳—not accustomed, as was her husband, to a lifelong vicinage to the pygmy burial-ground—she had developed no receptivity to that uncanny idea of a race⟳ of dwarfs.”

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