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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Remotely; at a distance.
  • In entomology, sparsely; so that the component parts are distant from one another: as, distantly punctured or spinose.
  • With reserve or haughtiness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb At a distance; remotely; with reserve.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a distant manner.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb from or at a distance

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