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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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(Nichbour-,) Nychtboor-, Nighbourhood, n. [Sc. varr., after Nichbourhede, of e.m.E. neighbourhood(e (1551), (north.) neghborode (1503), neiȝborehode (c 1449).] a. (Good) neighbourhood, amity between neighbours or fellow-citizens. b. The fact of living near another. c. A body of one's neighbours. —a. 1610 Misc. Hist. Soc. II. 191.
[Friendship borne] to my father for kinred, allia, freindschip or nychtboorhood 1666-74 Fraser Polichron. 98.
The Frasers owned and defended them, keeping good nighbourhood with them Ib. 109.
By this we may see the true nighbourhood and corespondanc begun and continued firm betuixt these two noble persons 1675 Edinb. Surgeons II. 128.
For not keeping of good nighbourhood one with anotherb. 1663 Rep. Sir R. Menzies MSS. 699.
To wreatt to you … who hes lived so many scoar of years in so near and intimatt nighbourhoodc. 1666 Fraser Polichron. 108.
George, Earl of Huntly, resolving to setle at Invernes, makes his friendship with him, knowing how usefull such a nighbourhood as the Lord Lovat and the Frasers would be to him
