Both Uses of
proximity
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Napoleon, in the Island of Elba, is too near France, and his proximity keeps up the hopes of his partisans.†
Chpt 5-6 *
- It was not their proximity that alarmed us, for detachments were constantly patrolling along the banks of the Rhone, but the care, according to the boy's account, that they took to avoid being seen.†
Chpt 43-44
Definition:
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(proximity) characteristic of being close -- in space or time