in a remote manner
"when the measured speech of the chorus passes over into song the tones are, remotely but unmistakably, those taught by the orthodox liturgy"
At a distance, far away.
"The lighthouse stood remotely on a jagged cliff overlooking the stormy sea."
The word remotely comes from combining the adjective remote with the suffix -ly. It entered English by adding a standard adverbial ending to describe something that is far away or disconnected.