A space marked out in the last part of a racecourse.
(w) (1616-1704)
the horse that ran the whole field out of distance
puhekieltä The entire amount of progress to an objective.
puhekieltä A withholding of intimacy; alienation; variance.
(w) (1561-1626)
Setting them factions at distance, or at least distrust amongst themselves.
(w) (1608-1674)
On the part of Heaven, / Now alienated, distance and distaste.
(RQ:WBsnt IvryGt)
In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.(..)Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.
The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness.
(w) (1631-1700)
I hope your modesty / Will know what distance to the crown is due.
(w) (1663-1732)
'Tis by respect and distance that authority is upheld.
puhekieltä To move away (from) someone or something.
He distanced himself from the comments made by some of his colleagues.
puhekieltä To leave at a distance; to outpace, leave behind.
1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger Peoples" Country'', Nebraska 2005, p. 71:
Then the horse, with muscles strong as steel, distanced the sound.