remotion

Example Sentences

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All thy safety were remotion, and thy defence absence.

From Timon of Athens by Shakespeare, William

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

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

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

From King Lear by Shakespeare, William

Empedocles, that a moderate cooling of the blood causeth sleep, but a total remotion of heat from blood causeth death.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

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.

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint