juxtaposition

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

JUXTAPOSI'TION, noun [Latin juxta, near, and position.] A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity; as the parts of a substance or of a composition. The connection of words is sometimes to be ascertained by juxtaposition
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