proximate

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

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