removed
adjective
remote; separate; not connected with; distinct from.
removedness
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a word derived from
removed.
Example Sentences
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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
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 Alice Brown
Here were associations almost living, they were so vivid, yet wraithlike in sheer removedness.
From The Prisoner by Alice Brown
A halo of removedness lies round his grey hairs, and to Pharaoh he behaves as one withdrawn from fleeting things, and, by age and nearness to the end, superior even to a king's dignity.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 Alexander Maclaren
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 Richard Burton
