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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