Hypertext Webster Gateway: "remotion"
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) 1.7 (wn)
remotion
n : the act of removing; "he had surgery for the removal of a
malignancy" [syn: {removal}]
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