Remoteness
[rɪ'motnɪs]
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Distance.
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Examples
- This was a class of plant which the inquirers desired to purchase outright and operate themselves, usually because of remoteness from any possible source of general supply of current. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Their remoteness and unpunctuality, or their exorbitant charges and frauds, will be drawing forth bitter lamentations. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- For the moment, Will's admiration was accompanied with a chilling sense of remoteness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- None of its features could be seen now, but the whole made itself felt as a vague stretch of remoteness. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Their remoteness from the experience of the young is not, however, seeming; it is real. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Heaven's light, following her exile, pierces its confinesand discloses their forlorn remoteness. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He regarded her from a point of view which in its remoteness, tender as it was, he little thought would have been unspeakable agony to her. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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