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nearabouts

adverb

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Wiktionary

adv

Etymology: From near + about + -s (see adverbial genitive).

  1. Synonym of nearabout.

    nearabouts the library, nearabouts ten o'clock

    c. 1613–1621, Francis Bacon, The judicial charge upon the commission of Oyer and Terminer held for the verge of the Court For where the majesty of a king's house draws recourse and access, it is both disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people, if the ways near-abouts be not fair and good […]