Sentence:  In the few years that she had lived here, a stranger herself, in some sort—not accustomed, as was her husband, to a lifelong <WSD>vicinage</WSD> to the pygmy burial-ground—she had developed no receptivity to that uncanny idea of a race of dwarfs. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The state of living near something; proximity, closeness.