remotion

Example Sentences

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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

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

From King Lear by Shakespeare, William

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

From King Lear by Shakespeare, William

All thy safety were remotion, and thy defence absence.

From Timon of Athens by Shakespeare, William

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