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REMOTELY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
To a remote degree
Example:
it is remotely possible
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Pertainym:
remote (very unlikely)
Sense 2
Meaning:
In a remote manner
Example:
when the measured speech of the chorus passes over into song the tones are, remotely but unmistakably, those taught by the orthodox liturgy
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Context examples:
Immense deference was shown to the Henry Spikers, male and female; which Agnes told me was on account of Mr. Henry Spiker being solicitor to something or to somebody, I forget what or which, remotely connected with the Treasury.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I wrote a Story, with a purpose growing, not remotely, out of my experience, and sent it to Traddles, and he arranged for its publication very advantageously for me; and the tidings of my growing reputation began to reach me from travellers whom I encountered by chance.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Their interest rather touched me and made them less remotely rich—nevertheless, I was confused and a little disgusted as I drove away.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
They had forgotten me, but Daisy glanced up and held out her hand; Gatsby didn't know me now at all. I looked once more at them and they looked back at me, remotely, possessed by intense life. Then I went out of the room and down the marble steps into the rain, leaving them there together.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
