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Remotest

Remote \Re*mote"\ (r?-m?t"), a. [Compar. Remoter (-?r); superl. Remotest.] [L. remotus, p. p. of removere to remove. See Remove.]

  1. 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.
    --Shak.

    Remote from men, with God he passed his days.
    --Parnell.

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

    1. Not agreeing; alien; foreign. ``All these propositions, how remote soever from reason.''
      --Locke.

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

    3. Separate; abstracted. ``Wherever the mind places itself by any thought, either amongst, or remote from, all bodies.''
      --Locke.

    4. Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant. ``From the effect to the remotest cause.''
      --Granville.

    5. Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.

  3. (Bot.) Separated by intervals greater than usual. [1913 Webster] -- Re*mote"ly, adv. -- Re*mote"ness, n.

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remotest

a. The most remote. (en-superlative of: remote)

Usage examples of "remotest".

On one side stood a long, low, shelf-like table covered with cracked glass cases, filled with dusty rarities gathered from this wide world’s remotest nooks.

Alone, in such remotest waters, that though you sailed a thousand miles, and passed a thousand shores, you would not come to any chiselled hearthstone, or aught hospitable beneath that part of the sun.

But such a supposition did by no means involve the remotest suspicion as to any boat’s crew being assigned to that boat.

For a time, there reigned, too, a sense of peculiar dread at this flitting apparition, as if it were treacherously beckoning us on and on, in order that the monster might turn round upon us, and rend us at last in the remotest and most savage seas.

Whether owing to the almost omniscient look-outs at the mast-heads of the whale-ships, now penetrating even through Behring’s straits, and into the remotest secret drawers and lockers of the world.

To use a scanner which only had the remotest chance of spotting him showed just how serious they were.

Which is why I’m here in the remotest part of the human dominion, where I can do little or no harm.

It cleared away even the remotest feeling of pity for the wretched drunken priest.

Now there was the chance, the remotest possibility that the image was flawed, less than honest.

It contained nothing of the remotest relevance to Banneth or Quinn Dexter.

Arm in arm, they appear to be telling one another important things which, however, are sure to have only the remotest and very likely irreverent connections with the office.