remotion

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

From King Lear 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

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

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

From King Lear by Shakespeare, William