proximate
- Adjective. Close or closest; adjacent.
- Adjective. (legal) Immediately preceding or following in a chain of causation.
- Adjective. About to take place; impending.
- Noun. (linguistics) A grammatical marker in the Algonquian (and some other) languages for a principal third person.
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