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Webster 1913 Edition

(r?-m?′sh?n)

Noun.

[L.

remotio

. See

The act of removing; removal.

[Obs.]

This

remotion

of the duke and her
Is practice only.

Shakespeare

The state of being remote; remoteness.

[R.]

The whitish gleam [of the stars] was the mask conferred by the enormity of their

remotion

De Quincey.

Noun.

The act of removing; the state of being removed to a distance. [Little used.]