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noun

Locality n. (pl. localitiees)

The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits. "It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality."

Position; situation; a place; a spot; esp., a geographical place or situation, as of a mineral or plant.

Limitation to a county, district, or place; as, locality of trial.

(Phren.) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.

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Etymology of 'Locality'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Locality" Quotes from Famous Books

... in Europe maintain that the government directs the affairs of each locality better than the citizens could do it for themselves: this may be true when the central power is enlightened, and when the local districts are ignorant; when it is as alert as they are slow; when it is accustomed to act, ...

— American Institutions and Their Influence • Alexis de Tocqueville et al

... infinite astonishment he beheld Jerusalem. That strongly-marked locality could not be mistaken: at his feet were Jehoshaphat, Kedron, Siloah; he stood upon Olivet; before him was Zion. But in all other respects, how different was the landscape from the one that he had gazed upon a few ...

— Alroy - The Prince Of The Captivity • Benjamin Disraeli

... us. I had a shot or two at thar, and we saw any number of kiang. We found rhubarb, which seemed to be thriving, at so high an elevation as 17,000 feet, and quantities of yellow flowers in the same locality and at the same elevation; and at 19,000 feet I netted two couples of small white and black butterflies. They seemed to have great difficulty in flying, and hardly rose more than two or three inches off the ground, flapping ...

— In the Forbidden Land • Arnold Henry Savage Landor

... the city and on the land, were brought from countries bordering on the Mediterranean, where they had been living in some kind of elementary civilisation, in which the germs of further development were present in the form of the natural ties of race and kinship and locality, of tribe or family or village community, and with their own religion, customs, and government. Permanent captivity in a foreign land and in a servile condition snapped these ties once and for all. To take a single appalling instance, ...

— Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero • W. Warde Fowler

... Phillips; "it has not been occupied for years and years—not since anybody around this locality can remember. Some of the uneducated people hereabouts still believe it is haunted, I understand; but it is rather unreasonable to suppose that any of the more cultured ones take any stock in the old story. While the fact ...

— The Girl Scouts' Good Turn • Edith Lavell

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