remotion

Re*mo"tion (r-m"shn), n. Etym: [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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