removes

Noun

remove (plural removes)

1. The act of removing something.
   • This place should be at once both school and university, not needing a remove to any other house of scholarship.[1644], [John Milton], Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib, [London]: […] [Thomas Underhill and/or Thomas Johnson], →OCLC
2. (historical) A dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a new course.
   • A supper brings up the rear, not forgetting the introductory luncheon, almost equalling in removes the dinner.1796, Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Oxford, published 2009, page 16
3. (UK) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last.
4. A step or gradation (as in the phrase “at one remove”).
   • A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator.1716 January 2 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 1. Thursday, December 23. 1715.”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […]...
5. Distance in time or space; interval.
   • How many Masters have some stately Houses had, in the age of a small Cottage, that hath, as it were, lived, and dyed with her old Master, both dropping down together. Such vain Preservatories of us, are our Inheritances, even once removed: but look on it more Removes off, and continuing in thy...1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English
6. (broadly, figuratively) Emotional distance or indifference.

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