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vicinity (noun):
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology : Vicinity is a word with neighbourly origins that was welcomed into English as a French import in the 16th century from Middle French vicinité. It comes ultimately from Latin vicus, meaning “row of houses” or “village,” by way of Latin vicinus, meaning “neighbouring.” Other descendants of vicinus in English include vicinal (a synonym of local) and vicinage, a synonym of vicinity in the sense of “a neighbouring or surrounding district.” Both of these are formal and rare, but vicinage is notable for giving title to the Vicinage Clause, a segment of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution that entitles an accused person to “an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law.”
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