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remotion |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Remotion \Re*mo"tion\ (r?-m?"sh?n), n. [L. remotio. See {Remove}.] 1. The act of removing; removal. [Obs.] This remotion of the duke and her Is practice only. --Shak. 2. The state of being remote; remoteness. [R.] The whitish gleam [of the stars] was the mask conferred by the enormity of their remotion. --De Quincey. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: remotion n : the act of removing; "he had surgery for the removal of a malignancy" [syn: {removal}]
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