REMORSELESS
Re*morse"less, a.
Defn: Being without remorse; having no pity; hence, destitute of sensibility; cruel; insensible to distress; merciless. "Remorseless adversaries." South. "With remorseless cruelty." Milton.
Syn.
— Unpitying; pitiless; relentless; unrelenting; implacable;
merciless; unmerciful; savage; cruel.
— Re*morse"less*ly, adv.
— Re*morse"less*ness, n.
REMOTE
Re*mote" (r-mt"), a. [Compar. Remoter (-r); superl. Remotest.] Etym:
[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: (a) Not agreeing; alien; foreign. "All these propositions, how remote soever from reason." Locke. (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." Locke. (d) Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant. "From the effect to the remotest cause." Granville. (e) Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.
3. (Bot.)
Defn: Separated by intervals greater than usual.
— Re*mote"ly, adv.
— Re*mote"ness, n.
REMOTION
Re*mo"tion (r-m"shn), n. Etym: [L. remotio. See Remove.]
1. The act of removing; removal. [Obs.] This remotion of the duke and her Is practice only. Shak.