Etymology
Origin of remotion
1350–1400; Middle English remosion < Latin remōtiōn- (stem of remōtiō ) a putting back, removing. See remote, -ion
Example Sentences
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Empedocles, that a moderate cooling of the blood causeth sleep, but a total remotion of heat from blood causeth death.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
Other incorporeal substances we know, in the present state of life, only by way of remotion or by some comparison to corporeal things.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
All thy safety were remotion, and thy defence absence.
From Timon of Athens by Shakespeare, William
And although in God there is no privation, still, according to the mode of our apprehension, He is known to us by way only of privation and remotion.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
The shadowy exhibition of a regal banquet in the desert, draws out and stimulates the sense of its utter solitude and remotion from men or cities.
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 by De Quincey, Thomas
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