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  • noun whereabouts, location

Etymologies

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From Latin ubi ("where") + -icity.

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Examples

  • And as no man knows the ubicity of his tumulus nor to what processes we shall thereby be ushered nor whether to Tophet or to Edenville in the like way is all hidden when we would backward see from what region of remoteness the whatness of our whoness hath fetched his whenceness.

    Ulysses 2003

  • And as no man knows the ubicity of his tumulus nor to what processes we shall thereby be ushered nor whether to Tophet or to Edenville in the like way is all hidden when we would backward see from what region of remoteness the whatness of our whoness hath fetched his whenceness.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

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  • "And as no man knows the ubicity of his tumulus nor to what processes we shall thereby be ushered ..."

    Joyce, Ulysses, 14

    January 20, 2007