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† ˈvoisinage Obs.
Also 6–7 voicinage, 7 voysinage.
[a. F. voisinage, f. voisin: cf. prec. and vicinage.]
1. The fact of being neighbouring or near.
1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 283 Erzirum is a Town of great strength..and by reason of its voicinage to the Persian Dominions usually made the place of rendezvous, when the Turks have any design against that Empire. 1681Burnet Hist. Ref. II. i. 203 Worcester and Glocester had been united, by reason of their Voicinage.
2. The neighbourhood; the adjoining district.
1642Jer. Taylor Episc. xxi. 114 All the Presbyters that came from Ephesus and the voisinage. 1647― Lib. Proph. Ep. Ded. 5, I had no Books of my own here, nor any in the voisinage. 1673H. Stubbe Further Vind. Dutch War 4 We in the City and Country do repine, complain and rage, till the whole Voisinage prove Male-content. 1678Sancroft in Bp. Wake Charge (1706) 43 Three Priests.., who are of the Voisinage where the Person testified of, resides.
b. The neighbourhood of a place.
1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. ii. Sect. x. 2 There hapned to be a marriage in Cana of Galilee in the voisinage of his dwelling. 1660― Ductor i. iv. rule 2 §13 It occasioned the death of all the little babes in the city and voisinage of Bethlehem. 1720S. Parker Biblioth. Bibl. I. 415 A City came to be built in the Voisinage of this Holy Place. |