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vicinage
[vis-uh-nij]
noun
the region near or about a place; vicinity.
a particular neighborhood or district, or the people belonging to it.
vicinage
/ ˈvɪsənɪdʒ /
noun
the residents of a particular neighbourhood
a less common word for vicinity
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of vicinage1
Example Sentences
The latter piece, known as the vicinage clause, was included by the Framers not as a matter of convenience for jurors but rather to ensure that jurors were able to impart the values of the community in which they reside.
District Court for New Jersey, Trenton Vicinage, comes three weeks after ADF attorneys sued Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson on behalf of a chain of pro-life clinics to block his investigation into their business practices.
“And this is Jane Eyre? Are you coming from Millcote, and on foot? Yes—just one of your tricks: not to send for a carriage, and come clattering over street and road like a common mortal, but to steal into the vicinage of your home along with twilight, just as if you were a dream or a shade. What the deuce have you done with yourself this last month?”
Police say the man made his way up the Antrim Road towards Vicinage Park before he was picked up in a silver-coloured car.
That a whole vicinage, when it had timely notice, should bind itself in a league to defeat the purpose of the inquisitors, as at Castelnaudary, must have been a frequent experience; that, sooner or later, despair should bring about a catastrophe like that of Avignonet was inevitable.
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