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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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"Remote" Quotes from Famous Books

... they were filled with rage at the temerity of these two humans in remaining so near the dreaded flames. Intent upon them, they paid no heed to their great enemy, the saber-toothed, with whom they were at endless and deadly feud. Away off to the left, quite clear of the woods, but safely remote from the fire, a pack of huge cave-hyenas sat up on their haunches, their long, red tongues hanging out. With jaws powerful enough to crack the thigh-bones of the urus, they nevertheless hesitated to obtrude themselves on the notice either of the crouching ...

— In the Morning of Time • Charles G. D. Roberts

... not matter—nothing mattered. Was this she, Rilla Blythe—this tortured thing, who had been quite happy a few minutes ago? Outside, a quartette was singing "We'll never let the old flag fall"—the music seemed to be coming from some remote distance. Why couldn't she cry, as she had cried when Jem told them he must go? If she could cry perhaps this horrible something that seemed to have seized on her very life might let go. But no tears came! Where were her scarf and coat? ...

— Rilla of Ingleside • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... pains. Inflammation of the meninges of the brain is often indicated by nausea and vomiting before attention is directed to the head. These illustrations are sufficient to show that pain often takes place in some part remote ...

— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce

... everywhere his intention of bestowing a dowry of a million upon his daughter. Of course this had brought a host of eager suitors, not only from the immediate neighborhood, but from parts remote. ...

— The Honor of the Name • Emile Gaboriau

... with one circumstance. About the time of the stay of the artist and his wife in Rome, where he had been only too glad to run up against a favourite old college chum, when the three had been making a long excursion in company beyond the Campagna, Pemberton had been suddenly attacked in a remote little ...

— A Houseful of Girls • Sarah Tytler

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