remotion

Example Sentences

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

From King Lear 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

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

All thy safety were remotion, and thy defence absence.

From Timon of Athens by Shakespeare, William

The shadowy exhibition of a regal banquet in the desert, draws out and stimulates the sense of its utter solitude and remotion from men or cities.

From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 by De Quincey, Thomas