1. proximate - Noun
2. proximate - Adjective
3. proximate - Adjective Satellite
Nearest; next immediately preceding or following.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhile the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time. Thorstein Veblen
Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems. Reinhold Niebuhr
The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it. Muhammad Iqbal
The invention and spread of contraceptives is the proximate cause of our changing morals. Will Durant
Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection. Richard Dawkins
Genocide is not a legitimate option. It's not ok to decide that an entire population has no right to live in the world. No matter whether these relationships are very proximate or very distant, there is no entitlement to expunge a population or to demean its basic humanity. Judith Butler