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And the obvious answer appears to be:—"Because it has a middle removedness or estrangement from the ordinary speech of men:—raising the language into imagination, and yet not out of sympathy."

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various

A halo of removedness lies round his grey hairs, and to Pharaoh he behaves as one withdrawn from fleeting things, and, by age and nearness to the end, superior even to a king's dignity.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture by Maclaren, Alexander

Then he became remote, with a removedness attained by no shadow even.

From Flames by Hichens, Robert Smythe

It has not the cold removedness of the stoic: it has pity in it, even love.

From Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities by Burton, Richard

But she would not have recalled the little missile hurled at the impalpable ghost through the shade of removedness that enveloped her.

From Old Crow by Brown, Alice