propinquity

IPA: prʌpˈɪnkwʌti

Examples of "propinquity" in Sentences

I used to joke, “Nothing propinques like propinquity.”
But it is not the way for a man and a woman, in propinquity, to maintain a definite, unwavering distance asunder.
Carey, so powerful in propinquity, might even have ended by learning to love Tannis and marrying her, to his own worldly undoing.
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.
It may have been the effect of what Byron would call "blind contact," and the sage Mrs. Broadhurst "propinquity;" or it may have been that his hour was come.
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 father and mother sat -- not side by side, in that propinquity which is so sweet, when every breath, every touch of the beloved's garment gives pleasure; they sat one at each corner of the table, engrossed in their several occupations; reading with an uncommunicative eagerness, and sewing in unbroken silence.