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From proxime (“next or immediately following”), accessit, from Latin for "she/he came very near".
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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From proxime (“next or immediately following”), accessit, from Latin for "she/he came very near".
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.