If it is used properly in this context, then a 'remove'happens with each generation away from say an aunt or uncle.
So Silmarien's descendants were all 1st cousins of the king/queen of Numenor but at increasing generations of 'removal'.
perhaps someone can answer this definitevly, as I thought as a generation passed down the children of first cousins became second cousins.
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