Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of removing; removal.
- noun The state of being remote.
- noun Obsolete Departure.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of removing; removal.
- noun The state of being remote; remoteness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The act of removing; removal.
- noun rare The state of being remote; remoteness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
remoteness - noun obsolete
departure , the act ofleaving
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of removing
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Greed is remotion of inhabitants by military force, as centuries ago argentines were removed.
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We know God from creatures as their principle, and also by way of excellence and remotion.
Archive 2005-08-01 2005
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In natural theology, we can only explain "by way of negation and remotion" what that means.
The Robinson-Blosser Debate on Divine Simplicity Mike L 2005
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We know God from creatures as their principle, and also by way of excellence and remotion.
Religious Language 2005
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In natural theology, we can only explain "by way of negation and remotion" what that means.
Archive 2005-06-01 Mike L 2005
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Empedocles, that a moderate cooling of the blood causeth sleep, but a total remotion of heat from blood causeth death.
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His doctrine of God holds the Plotinian notions of divine unity and remotion in tension with the Biblical emphasis upon the sovereign God's active involvement in creation and redemption.
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955
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Regained_ -- "stimulating the sense of its utter solitude and remotion from men and cities"; and, last and best, the comparison of Satan, in the same poem, to an old man gathering sticks upon a winter's day.
Milton Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891
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The whitish gleam was the mask conferred by the enormity of their remotion.
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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The whitish gleam was the mask conferred by the enormity of their remotion.
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers Thomas De Quincey 1822
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