REMORSELESSNESS
REMORSELESSNESS, noun remors'lessness. Savage cruelty; insensibility to distress.
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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REMORSELESSNESS, noun remors'lessness. Savage cruelty; insensibility to distress.
REMO'TE, adjective [Latin remotus, removeo; re and moveo, to move.]1. Distant in place; not near; as a remote country; a remote people.Give me a life remote from guilty courts.2...
REMO'TELY, adverb1. At a distance in space or time; not nearly.2. At a distance in consanguinity or affinity.3. Slightly; in a small degree; as, to be remotely affected by an ev...
REMO'TENESS, noun1. State of being distant in space or time; distance; as the remoteness of a kingdom or of a star; the remoteness of the deluge from our age; the remoteness of ...
REMO'TION, noun The act of removing; the state of being removed to a distance. [Little used.]
REMOUNT', verb transitive To mount again; as, to remount a horse.REMOUNT', verb intransitive To mount again; to reascend.
REMOVABIL'ITY, noun The capacity of being removable from an office or station; capacity of being displaced.
REMOVABLE, adjective [from remove.]1. That may be removed from an office or station.Such curate is removable at the pleasure of the rector of the mother church.2. That may be re...
REMOVAL, noun1. The act of moving from one place to another for residence; as the removal of a family.2. The act of displacing from an office or post.3. The act of curing or put...
REMOVE, verb transitive [Latin removeo; re and moveo, to move.]1. To cause to change place; to put from its place in any manner; as, to remove a building.Thou shalt not remove t...
REMOVED, participle passive1. Changed in place; carried to a distance; displaced from office; placed far off.2.adjective Remote; separate from others.
REMOVEDNESS, noun State of being removed; remoteness.
REMOVER, noun One that removes; as a remover of landmarks.
REMOVING, participle present tense changing place; carrying or going from one place to another; displacing; banishing.
REMUNERABIL'ITY, noun the capacity of being rewarded.
REMU'NERABLE, adjective [from remunerate.] That may be rewarded; fit or proper to be recompensed.
REMU'NERATE, verb transitive [Latin remunero; re and munero, from munus, a gift.]to reward; to recompense; to requite; in a good sense; to pay an equivalent to for any service, ...
REMU'NERATED, participle passive Rewarded; compensated.
REMU'NERATING, participle present tense Rewarding; recompensing.
REMUNERA'TION, noun1. Reward; recompense; the act of paying an equivalent for services, loss or sacrifices.2. The equivalent given for services, loss or sufferings.
REMU'NERATIVE, adjective Exercised in rewarding; that bestows rewards; as remunerative justice.
REMU'NERATORY, adjective Affording recompense; rewarding.
REMUR'MUR, verb transitive [Latin remurmuro; re and murmuro.]to utter back in murmurs; to return in murmurs; to repeat in low hoarse sounds.The trembling trees in every plain an...
REMUR'MURED, participle passive Uttered back in murmurs.
REMUR'MURING, participle present tense uttering back in low sounds.
RE'NAL, adjective [Latin renalis, from renes, the kidneys.]Pertaining to the kidneys or reins; as the renal arteries.
REN'ARD, noun a fox; a name used in fables, but not in common discourse.