interjacency

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˌɪntəɹˈd͡ʒeɪsənsi/

Noun

interjacency (usually uncountable, plural interjacencies)

  1. The quality of being interjacent.
  2. Something that lies between.
    • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
      its fluctuations are but motions subservient; which winds, storms, shores, shelves, and every interjacency irregulates.
    • 1713, [Matthew Hale], “Concerning the Communication of the Laws of England unto the Kingdom of Scotland”, in The History of the Common Law of England: […], [London]: […] J[ohn] Nutt, assignee of Edw[ard] Sayer Esq; for J. Walthoe, […], →OCLC, page 197:
      […] It is very well known, that England and Scotland made but one Iſland, divided not by the Sea or any conſiderable Arm thereof, but only by the Interjacency of the River Tweed, and ſome Deſert Ground, which did not hinder any eaſie common Acceſs of the People of the one Kingdom to the other: […]

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