proximate

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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adjective closest in degree or order (space or time) especially in a chain of causes and effects
adjective very close in space or time

From Late Latin proximatus, past participle of proximare (“to draw near, approach”), from Latin proximus (“nearest”), superlative of prope (“near”).

A silent contemplation: a tentative velation: a gradual abasement: a solicitous aversion: a proximate erection. — Ulysses, James Joyce
"We believe in eternal life," tragedy exclaims; while music is the proximate idea of this life. — The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Not to fall back on the gods, where a proximate principle may be found, has with us Westerners long since become the sign of an efficient as distinguished from an inefficient intellect. — The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, William James

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