> as lemmas

1633 G. Herbert Jordan in Temple ii Must all be vail'd, while he that reads, divines, Catching the sense at two removes?

1668 R. Steele Husbandmans Calling ix. 225 How can I glorifie my Maker, that am but one remove from a piece of..sinful earth?

1712 R. Theed Sacred Biogr. 80 Now Moses stood actually possess'd of this World's Glitter, and but one Remove from its Top-felicity.

1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 53 It might be well enough, if you were..but a Remove or two from the Dirt you seem so fond of.

1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. xxix. 221 Virtue stands two removes from the summum bonum.

1850 J. McCosh Method Divine Govt. (ed. 2) ii. ii. 204 Events are explained by other events separated from them by a thousand removes.

1864 J. Bryce Holy Rom. Empire iv. 54 Yet nascent feudality was but one remove from anarchy.

1906 Proc. Amer. Medico-Psychol. Assoc. 62nd Ann. Meeting (1907) 513 Fear and terror are but a remove from sadness.

1955 R. W. B. Lewis Amer. Adam (1959) v. 96 At one moment in Arthur Mervyn we are not less than four removes from the immediate—a device which..confuses us intolerably.

1975 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 4 Nov. 6/1 The Ontario Government fumbled its way into the factfinder legislation, which was designed to put teach-board disputes at one remove from provincial responsibility.

2004 Week 25 Sept. 14/2 We are voyeurs, consuming emotions at one remove, without really understanding them.