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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Greatness of distance.

Wiktionary

  1. n. archaic length

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. rare Greatness of distance; remoteness.

Examples

  • “While we were discoursing of India (concerning which I found that, like most globular trotters, he had not been long enough in the country to be accurately informed), enters a third party, who, it so happened, was an early acquaintance of my companion, though separated by the old lang sign of a longinquity.”

    Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.

  • “Inordinate unvaried length, sheer longinquity, staggers the heart, ages the very heart of us at a view.”

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith

  • “You are free," said his friends at last, who had wanted to prove him; "and they showed him the king's order, which he read," says Abbe Arnauld, "without any change of countenance, and as little affected by joy as he had been a moment before by the longinquity of his release.”

    A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5

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  1. remoteness

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  • halcyonwhimsy Maybe this will help...

    \lan-JIN-kwed-ee\ Oct 2, 2007

  • reesetee Especially since the "g" is apparently soft. Even nicer. Sep 21, 2007

  • palooka The opposite of propinquity. I agree with seanahan - it's a challenge to pronounce but a beautiful word. Sep 21, 2007

  • seanahan This is a great word, we should all start using it. Sep 21, 2007

  • reesetee (archaic) Remoteness in space or time. Sep 20, 2007

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