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/ˈeɪliənˌeɪtəd/ /ˈeɪliənˌeɪtɪd/ 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."

adjective

alienated adj.

Socially disoriented. "We live in an age of rootless alienated people"

Synonyms: anomic, disoriented

Having become indifferent or hostile to one's peers or social group.

Synonyms: estranged

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Etymology of 'Alienated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... only because they exhibited in mechanical and technical qualities some semblance of the manner of the nobler historical painters, whose principles of conception and composition they entirely reversed. The course of study which has led me reverently to the feet of Michael Angelo and Da Vinci, has alienated me gradually from Claude and Gaspar—I cannot at the same time do homage to power and pettiness—to the truth of consummate science, and the mannerism of undisciplined imagination. And let it be understood that whenever hereafter I speak depreciatingly of the old masters as a body, I ...

— Modern Painters Volume I (of V) • John Ruskin

... was now about to be wrecked on the rock of this group of treaties. Lord Shelburne's government had at no time been a strong one. He had made many enemies by his liberal and reforming measures, and he had alienated most of his colleagues by his reserved demeanour and seeming want of confidence in them. In December several of the ministers resigned. The strength of parties in the House of Commons was thus quaintly reckoned by Gibbon: "Minister 140; Reynard 90; Boreas 120; the ...

— The Critical Period of American History • John Fiske

... seal them, if it must be so, with my blood." Shortly afterwards he proclaimed himself sovereign of Great Britain. He was popularly known as "King Monmouth." Many of the country people now joined him, but the Whig nobles (S479), on whose help he had counted, stood aloof, alienated doubtless by the ridiculous charges he ...

— The Leading Facts of English History • D.H. Montgomery

... country for support, inasmuch as the presence of the colonists abridges their means of subsistence, whilst it furnishes to the public treasury a large revenue in the shape of fees for licences and assessments on stock, together with the very large sums paid for land seized by the Crown, and alienated to private individuals. ...

— Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central • Edward John Eyre

... the bed where Lawleigh, or, as we must now call him, Lord Berville, lay apparently asleep. What the ruffian's thoughts were we cannot say, but those of his involuntary guest were strange enough. His uncle dead, and the fortune not alienated, as, with the exception of a very small portion, he had always understood his predecessor had already done—his life at this moment in jeopardy; for a cursory glance at the tall figure of the marauder, as he had entered, had sufficed to show that the object of his search was before ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine--Vol. 54, No. 333, July 1843 • Various

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