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longinquity Now rare.|lɒnˈdʒɪŋkwɪtɪ|
[ad. L. longinquitās, f. longinquus (see prec.).]
1. Long distance; remoteness.
1549Compl. Scot. Ded. Ep. 4 The longinquite of his martial voyaige. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage iv. xii. 411 There may shine a Tartarian sunne in Cathay, when as a darke night in this longinquitie of distance hideth him from our eyes. 1665Manley Grotius's Low C. Warres 343 Many famous Miracles have been done by them, as is believed with great facility from confident Asseverations; for that the Longinquity of places excludes further Tryals. 1831T. L. Peacock Crotchet Cast. ii. 34, I think the proximity of wine a matter of much more importance than the longinquity of water.
2. Remoteness, long continuance (of time). Also, (? erron.) prolixity (of discourse).
1623Cockeram, Longinquitie, distance of time. 1658Topsell Four-f. Beasts 556 The bones of the head—some of which are so affected by longinquity [ed. 1607 longanimity] of time that [etc.]. 1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. iii. ii. 30 Thucydides..could know nothing..of things before the Peloponnesian war, by reason of the Longinquitie of Time. 1879G. Meredith Egoist Prel., Inordinate unvaried length, sheer longinquity. |