| 单词 | proximity of blood |
| 释义 | > as lemmasproximity of blood 1. The fact or condition of being near or close in abstract relations, as kinship (esp. in proximity of blood), time, nature, etc.; closeness. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > [noun] > nearness of nighnessa1398 propinquity?a1425 nearness1444 proximity1480 germanity1597 the world > relative properties > relationship > [noun] > affinity or closeness cousinagea1398 alliancea1475 affinityc1485 propinquitya1500 societya1513 kindred1528 cognationa1555 affinitive1579 sympathya1586 vicinity1594 affiance1597 contingence1612 contingency1612 congeniality1620 umbilicality1646 consanguinity1651 congeneracy1664 gossipred1674 congenerousness1677 closeness1692 intimacy1720 proximity1762 liaison1809 cousinship1848 affiliation1870 kinship1876 the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [noun] > nearness, approach, or imminence nighness1548 towardness1549 propinquity1611 approacha1616 coming1626 looming1627 impendencya1632 fall1647 imminence1655 impendence1657 instancy1658 imminency1665 soonness1668 incumbence1677 simmering1844 proximity1876 1480 W. Caxton tr. Ovid Metamorphoses xiii. ii By reson of proxymyte I oughte to haue them, syth tht cometh none nerrer heyre than I am. 1521 Ld. Dacre in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. I. 283 Bi reason of the nerenes and proximitie of blood. 1582 in W. Fraser Douglas Bk. (1885) IV. 180 Freindis..belanging to him be proximite of lignage. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xii. 337 Mariages in proximitie of blood are amongst vs forbidden. 1690 P. Ker Conquest of Eloquence 17 But if Proximity of Blood Be sought, to make your Sentence good: Peleus Achilles did Beget. 1721 T. Bolton Sermon 14 That Prince..who by Proximity of Blood succeeded in that Line or Family. 1762 W. Warburton Doctr. Grace Pref. A dark conceit and a dull one have a great proximity in modern wit. 1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer iv. 119 To announce, by the budding of its leaves, the arrival of the spring, and to warn by their fall the proximity of winter. 1855 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages (ed. 11) II. vii. 252 True it is that her proximity of blood to the king would not warrant Osbern to call her adultera. 1876 W. E. Gladstone Homeric Synchronism 69 The inferences..are in favour of the Poet's proximity in time to the War of Troy. 1934 M. McLuhan Let. 3 Nov. (1987) 34 Elocution has suffered, more than singing, from its seeming proximity to common parlance. 1973 16th Cent. Jrnl. 4 91 Their strongest legal argument was the law of proximity of blood in a collateral line. 1995 Guardian (Nexis) 29 Nov. 4 Today is nearer than tomorrow; the level of responsibility depends on proximity in time. < as lemmas |
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