To be at a remove

[Bushwhacker]

Does "to be at a remove" mean "to retire, dismiss, get out from a place or something?

Thank You.

[vil]

1. remove = figurative distance or degree of separation or remoteness

"just one remove from madness"

"it imitates at many removes a Shakespearean tragedy"

"a first cousin of one remove"

"at a certain remove"

"the scene changes at each remove"

[Bushwhacker]

Originally Posted by vil

1. remove = figurative distance or degree of separation or remoteness

"just one remove from madness"

"it imitates at many removes a Shakespearean tragedy"

"a first cousin of one remove"

"at a certain remove"

"the scene changes at each remove"

First at all, Thank You for your kind attention, but I'm not quite sure to fully understand it.
Paragraph where question's been found is:

"Who speaks with authority and credibility to what happened? Not somebody who was at a remove from it, not somebody who's studied it, but somebody who was in the thick of it."

Doesn't it seem to mean "Not somebody who opted for getting away from it" or the like?


Thanks again.

[Bushwhacker]

Any other contribution, please.

[Anglika]

To be at a remove from something = To be at a figurative distance from something.

Individuality does not develop at a remove from existing conditions of being.

She is always at a remove from people,