Sentence:  The travelling artist they knew, the pedlar, the insurance agent, and the cockney beanfeaster; but the stranger who desired permanent <WSD>neighbourship</WSD> with them they knew not; him they treated as a lunatic at large. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The state or condition of being neighbours; a connection or relationship between people or things which is based simply on living close geographically.