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adjective

Remote adj. (compar. remoter; superl. remotest)

Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands. "Places remote enough are in Bohemia." "Remote from men, with God he passed his days."

Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related; in various figurative uses. Specifically:

(a)

Not agreeing; alien; foreign. "All these propositions, how remote soever from reason."

(b)

Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity.

(c)

Separate; abstracted. "Wherever the mind places itself by any thought, either amongst, or remote from, all bodies."

(d)

Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant. "From the effect to the remotest cause."

(e)

Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.

(Bot.) Separated by intervals greater than usual.

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Etymology of 'Remote'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... judge of them by analogy. If we study Nature with attention, the modes of action which she displays to our senses will teach us not to be disconcerted by those which she refuses to discover. Those causes which are the most remote from their effects, unquestionably act by intermediate causes; by the aid of these, we can frequently trace out the first. If in the chain of these causes we sometimes meet with obstacles that oppose themselves to our research, we ought to endeavour ...

— The System of Nature, Vol. 1 • Baron D'Holbach

... you willing? We shall escape the evil tongues in Holland. Evade the painful proximity of my old sphere of life. We shall not bury ourselves in some remote corner of the earth, but shall stand in the very midst of the most fiercely burning life, in the most intensively growing human world. There I can best become aware of what is to be expected of mankind, best divine what Christ intends with us and what he expects of me. If I can ...

— The Bride of Dreams • Frederik van Eeden

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