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