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Out of the neighborhood of lessening or losing proximity to leaving behind by reason of out of by aid of used whenever departure setting out commencement of action being state occurrence etc or procedure emanation absence separation etc are to be expressed It is construed with and indicates the point of space or time at which the action state etc are regarded as setting out or beginning also less frequently the source the cause the occasion out of which anything proceeds the antithesis and correlative of to as it is one hundred miles from Boston to Springfield he took his sword from his side light proceeds from the sun separate the coarse wool from the fine men have all sprung from Adam and often go from good to bad and from bad to worse the merit of an action depends on the principle from which it proceeds men judge of facts from personal knowledge or from testimony