Re*mo"tion (r?-m?"sh?n), n. [L. remotio. See Remove.]

1.

The act of removing; removal.

[Obs.]

This remotion of the duke and her Is practice only. Shak.

2.

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.

 

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