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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Locality" Quotes from Famous Books

... famous in the history of literature:—as Athens, in Greece; the Island of Scio, where Homer first saw the light; and Stratford, where Shakspeare appeared. Now, sir, reasoning from analogy, which is the finest possible way of reasoning, we must conclude that Virginia has such a locality, and I leave you to decide the probable situation of it. It cannot be Williamsburg, the seat of government, for that place is given up to the vanity of life—to balls and horseraces, meetings of the House of Burgesses, and other varieties. ...

— The Last of the Foresters • John Esten Cooke

... just comfortable time for us to re-bunker the Kasanumi before six o'clock, at which hour we got under way, the expedition as a whole being under the command of Rear-Admiral Misamichi, who knew the locality well, having carefully reconnoitred the whole of the western coast of the peninsula a week or two earlier. I had by this time completed all my calculations, laid down upon the chart the positions of my series of buoys, and indicated in figures the exact measurements in yards ...

— Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun - A Story of the Russo-Japanese War • Harry Collingwood

... (Gr. Monemvasia) was a town on the southeast coast of Greece. The term malvasia wine, or malmsey, was originally used of a wine coming from that locality, but afterward, ...

— Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period - Illustrative Documents • Various

... canoes had reached the western end of the Lake of St. Peter, where it is filled with innumerable islands. [ Buteux, Narr de le Prise du Pre Jogues, MS. This document leaves no doubt as to the locality. ] The forest was close on their right, they kept near the shore to avoid the current, and the shallow water before them was covered with a dense growth of tall bulrushes. Suddenly the silence was frightfully broken. The war-whoop rose from among the rushes, ...

— The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century • Francis Parkman

... history, I must not omit a more minute description of Khan Shereefs fort. I have already described its locality on the borders of Toorkisth[a]n. It was situated at the base of a low conical hill, on the summit of which a look-out tower had been erected; this building was in troublesome times occupied by a party of Juzzylchees, who took their ...

— A Peep into Toorkisthhan • Rollo Burslem

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