Age of Abstraction
Perils and Possibilities of our Time
Abstract v. 1542 1. To withdraw, take away; to take away secretly, to purloin. 1542 2. To draw off; disengage from. 1557 To divert. 3. To withdraw oneself, to retire from. 1671 4. To separate in mental conception; to consider apart from the concrete. 1612
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