Both Uses of
remnant
in
Childhood's End
- The effect of these two inventions upon human society could only be described as devastating, and they had swept away the last remnants of the Puritan aberration.†
Chpt 6 *remnants = small amounts that remains after the rest is gone
- Their probation is ended: they're leaving the last remnants of matter behind.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
a small amount that remains after the rest is gone -- sometimes specifically of cloth