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Remoteness See also Isolation. Repentance (See PENITENCE.) Reproof (See CRITICISM.) Antarctica continent surrounding South Pole. [Geography: NCE, 113–115] from one outermost extreme to another. [O.T.: Judges 20:1] in European and American imaginations, a faraway land of no return. [Western Folklore: Misc.] the unreachable end of the earth. [Western Folklore: Misc.] Nepalese peak; highest elevation in world (29,028 ft.). [Geography: NCE, 907] great ridge of Rocky Mountains; once thought of as epitome of faraway place. [Am. Folklore: Misc.] traditionally thought of as the northern-most, remote point of Britain. [Geography: Misc.] the southwestern tip of Britain. [Geography: Misc.] earth’s satellite; unreachable until 1969. [Astronomy: NCE, 1824] figurative ends of the earth. [Geography: Misc.] desert wasteland between Russia and China; figuratively and literally remote. [Geography: Misc.] capital of American Samoa in South Pacific; thought of as a remote spot. [Geography: Misc.] promontories at the sides of Straits of Gibraltar; once the limit of man’s travel. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 110] frozen land in northeastern U.S.S.R.; place of banishment and exile. [Russ. Hist.: NCE, 2510] archipelago off the extreme southern tip of South America. [Geography: Misc.] figuratively, the end of the earth. [Am. Usage: NCE, 2749] to Romans, extremity of the world, identified with Iceland. [Rom. Legend: LLEI, I: 318] northwestern Canadian territory touching on the Arctic Ocean. [Geography: Misc.] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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If the periods be distant from each other, the same remark will be applicable to all recent measures; and in proportion as the remoteness of the others may favor a dispassionate review of them, this advantage is inseparable from inconveniences which seem to counterbalance it. These are very modern, but their remoteness and isolation upon the Essex marsh, the days of failure attending their creation, invested them with a romantic air. Too long have I lived wildly in wild remoteness, to return to thee without tears! |
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