Both Uses of
proximity
in
Middlemarch
- Rosamond had a Providence of her own who had kindly made her more charming than other girls, and who seemed to have arranged Fred's illness and Mr. Wrench's mistake in order to bring her and Lydgate within effective proximity.†
Chpt 3 *
- There is a forsaking which still sits at the same board and lies on the same couch with the forsaken soul, withering it the more by unloving proximity.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(proximity) characteristic of being close -- in space or time