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Слово "propinquity". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

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  1. propinquity [prəˈpɪŋkwɪtɪ]существительное
    1. близость

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      1. I don't plead propinquity: the fact that I, a woman young and at the age for marrying and in a time when most of the young men whom I would have known ordinarily were dead on lost battlefields, that I lived for two years under the same roof with him.
        Я не ссылаюсь на близкое родство: на то, что я — молодая девица, созревшая для замужества, и в ту пору, когда большая часть молодых людей, с которыми я при обычных обстоятельствах была бы знакома, погибли на полях проигранных сражений — два года прожила с ним под одной крышей.
        Авессалом, Авессалом! Уильям Фолкнер, стр. 13
      2. Between the Macphails and the Davidsons, who were missionaries, there had arisen the intimacy of shipboard, which is due to propinquity rather than to any community of taste.
        Между Макфейлами и Дэвидсонами - супругами миссионерами - завязалась пароходная дружба, возникающая не из-за близости взглядов и вкусов, а благодаря неизбежно частым встречам.
        Дождь. Уильям Сомерсет Моэм, стр. 1
      3. That all seems to be most natural, given the circumstances and the money involved and the opportunities for propinquity.
        Это как раз вполне естественно, если учесть обстоятельства, деньги, которые проходят через их руки, возможности сойтись друг с другом.
        И в трещинах зеркальный круг. Агата Кристи, стр. 101
    2. подобие; родство

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      1. It was the belief of those who knew him best, that he would positively have taken the very singular step of giving up the House of Seven Gables to the representative of Matthew Maule, but for the unspeakable tumult which a suspicious of the old gentleman's project awakened among his Pyncheon relatives. Their exertions had the effect of suspending his purpose; but it was feared that he would perform, after death, by the operation of his last will, what he had so hardly been prevented from doing in his proper lifetime. But there is no one thing which men so rarely do, whatever the provocation or inducement, as to bequeath patrimonial property away from their own blood. They may love other individuals far better than their relatives—they may even cherish dislike or positive hatred to the latter; but yet, in view of death, the strong prejudice of propinquity revives, and impels the testator to send down his estate in the line marked out by custom so immemorial that it looks like nature. In all the Pyncheons, this feeling had the energy of disease. It was too powerful for the conscientious scruples of the old bachelor; at whose death, accordingly, the mansion-house, together with most of his other riches, passed into the possession of his next legal representative.
        Жилище покойного вместе с большей частью других богатств досталось в наследство ближайшему законному родственнику.
        Дом о семи шпилях. Натаниэль Готорн, стр. 19
      2. Between the Macphails and the Davidsons, who were missionaries, there had arisen the intimacy of shipboard, which is due to propinquity rather than to any community of taste.
        Между Макфейлами и Дэвидсонами - супругами миссионерами - завязалась пароходная дружба, возникающая не из-за близости взглядов и вкусов, а благодаря неизбежно частым встречам.
        Дождь. Уильям Сомерсет Моэм, стр. 1

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