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Definition of Remoter
1. remote [adj] - See also: remote
Lexicographical Neighbors of Remoter
Literary usage of Remoter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Key and Elphinstone's Compendium of Precedents in Conveyancing by Howard Warburton Elphinstone, Thomas Key, William Hew Coltman (1897)
"... trust for children or remoter issue as widow shall appoint (4). Trust for
children or issue of tenant for life as he shall appoint. ..."
2. An Elementary Digest of the Law of Property in Land by Stephen Martin Leake (1874)
"According to these principles, a power may be well Power to appoint created to
appoint to grandchildren or other more remote or remoter Irene, ..."
3. A Practical Treatise on the Law of Perpetuity: Or, Remoteness in Limitations by William David Lewis (1843)
"It must be admitted, the authorities do not warrant our saying more, than that,
if the birth of the remoter issue is limited to happen during the lifetime ..."
4. A Practical Treatise on the Law of Perpetuity: Or, Remoteness in Limitations by William David Lewis (1843)
"... But if the birth of the remoter issue be limited to happen with the legal
period, the remainder is good. shares shall vest, within the proper period. ..."
5. Theology: Explained and Defended, in a Series of Sermons by Timothy Dwight (1839)
"IN the three preceding discourses, I have considered Death ; its Immediate
Consequences ; and the first of its remoter Const- fences ; to wit, ..."
6. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1886)
"He devoted, moreover, considerable attention to political economy, and made a
tour through the remoter parts of England ..."
7. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau (1873)
"... we call it new, and the plants which spring from it; and when our vision
pierces deeper into space, and detects a remoter star, we call that new also. ..."
8. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1880)
"... and say that there will be a speedy recurrence of this tumour, and remoter
secondary growths upon the internal viscera. ARTICLE XVII. ..."
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