Now rare or Obs. [a. F. confinité (14th c. in Littré), f. confin or L. confīnis: see -ITY; cf. affinity.] The position of bordering on something else; neighborhood, contiguity, adjacency. (lit. and fig.)
1544. Phaër, Regim. Lyfe (1560), Q iij b. For confinitie of the matter, I entend to wryte somewhat of the nource, and of ye mylke.
1593. Bilson, Govt. Christ’s Ch., 153. I shall not neede to prooue the confinitie between [them].
1730–6. Bailey (folio), Confinity, Nearness of Place.
1742. Miss Carter, trans. Algarotti on Newton, II. 57. Systems which supposed Colour might be changed by Refraction, Reflection, the Confinity to Shadow.
1848. Blackw. Mag., LXIV. 379. The confinity with agitated France, and consequently a more active affinity with its ideas.
