How to pronounce“proximate”in English
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Definitions of “proximate”
Close or closest; adjacent.
“And writing a Theory of the Deluge here, as we do, we were to exhibit a Series of causes whereby it might be made intelligible, or to shew^([sic]) the proximate Natural Causes of it; […]”
Immediately preceding or following in a chain of causation.
“The proximate cause of the damage must be established.”
A grammatical marker that distinguishes a relatively salient referent in a given context from a relatively non-salient (obviative) one.
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