What is "remotion"

Remotion \Re*mo"tion\ (r?-m?"sh?n), n. [L. remotio. See Remove.]

1. The act of removing; removal. [Obs.]

   This remotion of the duke and her Is practice only.
   --Shak.

2. The state of being remote; remoteness. [R.]

   The whitish gleam [of the stars] was the mask conferred by the enormity of their remotion.
   --De Quincey.

n. 1 (lb en zoology chiefly entomology) Backward motion. (qualifier: Contrast ''promotion''.) 2 (lb en especially logic largely obsolete) removal.

n. the act of removing; "he had surgery for the removal of a malignancy" [syn: removal]