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/ˈeɪljənˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Alienate v. t. (past & past part. alienated; pres. part. alienating)

To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.

To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; with from. "The errors which... alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart." "The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present."

noun

Alienate n. A stranger; an alien. (Obs.)

adjective

Alienate adj. Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; with from. "O alienate from God."

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Etymology of 'Alienate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Alienate" Quotes from Famous Books

... could be prevailed upon to indulge him with the least mark of maternal regard. On the contrary, her original disgust degenerated into such inveteracy of hatred, that she left no stone unturned to alienate the commodore's affection for this her innocent child, and even practised the most malicious defamation to accomplish her purpose. Every day, did she abuse her husband's ear with some forged instance of Peregrine's ingratitude to his uncle, well knowing that it would reach the commodore's knowledge ...

— The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Volume I • Tobias Smollett

... from now on. This will be its swan song. It hits too close to home. Too many people have been saying similar things about our profession and its trend toward specialization. And to have the Nobel Prize confirm them would alienate every doctor in the world. ...

— A Prize for Edie • Jesse Franklin Bone

... brotherhood in personal animosities, vanity, and self-interest, competing with others! Our differences of ideas arising from differences of race, training, occupation, country, fling us apart. Our differences of wealth and position alienate us. Our differences of conception of Christianity often separate and embitter us. But do these not crumble when we ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII • Alexander Maclaren

... wife, even when she is separate in estate from the husband, can not alienate, grant, mortgage, acquire, either by gratuitous or encumbered title, unless her husband concurs in the act, or yields ...

— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various

... thinks there is a Case like it in Chapt. 170 Sect. 5 in Fearn's Contingent Remainders. Pray read it over with him dispassionately, and let me have the result. The complexity lies in the questionable power of the husband to alienate in usum enfeoffments whereof he was only collaterally ...

— Yesterdays with Authors • James T. Fields

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