Remotion

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Remotion \Re*mo"tion\ (r?-m?"sh?n), n. [L. remotio. See
     {Remove}.]
     1. The act of removing; removal. [Obs.]
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              This remotion of the duke and her


              Is practice only.                     --Shak.
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     2. The state of being remote; remoteness. [R.]
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              The whitish gleam [of the stars] was the mask
              conferred by the enormity of their remotion. --De
                                                    Quincey.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  remotion
       n : the act of removing; "he had surgery for the removal of a
           malignancy" [syn: {removal}]