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Estrange

verb

(past & past part. estranged; pres. part. estranging)

Remove from customary environment or associations.

Arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness. Synonyms: alien, alienate, disaffect.

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"Estrange" Quotes from Famous Books

... to estrange us, and I suspect that those tale-bearers who repeated alternately to you and to me our mutual expressions were the chief obstacles to any good understanding between us. Each believed that what was said proceeded from deliberate ...

— Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 1 of 2 • Lady Wallace

... repentance only brings, Doth bid me, now, my heart from Love estrange! Love is disdained when it doth look at Kings; And Love low placed base and apt to change. There Power doth take from him his liberty, Her[e] Want of Worth makes him in cradle die. O sweet woods! the delight of solitariness! O how much ...

— Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age • Various

... mine, if I should other deem, Nor can coy Fortune contrary allow: But, my Anselmo, loth I am to say I must estrange that friendship— Misconsture not, tis from the Realm, not thee: Though Lands part Bodies, Hearts keep company. Thou knowst that I imparted often have Private relations with my royal Sire, Had as concerning beautious Amadine, Rich Aragon's bright ...

— 2. Mucedorus • William Shakespeare [Apocrypha]

... of Verdun Royal, sir," she replied. "I left because Miss L'Estrange was growing up, and my lady wished ...

— Wife in Name Only • Charlotte M. Braeme (Bertha M. Clay)

... like angels' sympathies, Is as the breath of Heaven and cannot change No earthly shudder taints its sinless kiss. No sorrow can your loving hearts estrange; No selfish pride destroy the priceless bliss Of loving and confiding. Oh exchange Not love like this, so heavenly and so true. For all the vows that lovers' ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 • Various

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