remotion

[ ri-moh-shuhn ]

noun

1. the act of removing; removal.
2. Obsolete. departure.

Word History and Origins

Origin of remotion¹

1350–1400; Middle English remosion < Latin remōtiōn- (stem of remōtiō ) a putting back, removing. See remote, -ion

Example Sentences

Other incorporeal substances we know, in the present state of life, only by way of remotion or by some comparison to corporeal things.

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This act perswades me, That this remotion of the Duke and her Is practise only.

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All thy safety were remotion, and thy defence absence.

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This act persuades me That this remotion of the duke and her Is practice only.

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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.

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