adjacency

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ADJA'CENCY, noun [Latin adjaceo, to lie contiguous, from ad and jaceo, to lie.] The state of lying close or contiguous; a bordering upon, or lying next to; as the adjacency of lands or buildings. In the sense of that which is adjacent, as used by Brown, it is not legitimate.
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