2. Compassionate; feeling tenderly. [Obs.] Shak.
3. Exciting pity; pitiable. [Obs.] Chapman.
— Re*morse"ful*ly, adv. — Re*morse"ful*ness, n.
Remorseless
(Re*morse"less), a. 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") 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:
(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.) Separated by intervals greater than usual.
— Re*mote"ly, adv. — Re*mote"ness, n.
Remotion
(Re*mo"tion) 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. Remould
(Re*mould") v. t. See Remold.
Remount
(Re*mount") v. t. & i. To mount again.
Remount
(Re*mount"), n. The opportunity of, or things necessary for, remounting; specifically, a fresh
horse, with his equipments; as, to give one a remount.
Removable
(Re*mov"a*ble) a. Admitting of being removed. Ayliffe. — Re*mov`a*bil"i*ty n.
Removal
(Re*mov"al) n. The act of removing, or the state of being removed.
Remove
(Re*move") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Removed (-m??vd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Removing.] [OF. removoir,
remouvoir, L. removere, remotum; pref. re- re- + movere to move. See Move.]
