Alienated
['eljənetɪd]
Definition
(adj.) caused to be unloved .
(adj.) socially disoriented; 'anomic loners musing over their fate'; 'we live in an age of rootless alienated people' .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Alienate
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Examples
- Once angered, I doubt if Dr. Bretton were to be soon propitiated--once alienated, whether he were ever to be reclaimed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I was not made the less so by my sense of being daily more and more shut out and alienated from my mother. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I'm afraid she's quite alienated the van der Luydens . Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- She meted out a wide space between us, and kept me aloof by the reserved gesture, the rare and alienated glance, the word calmly civil. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It is, in short, impossible for us to conjecture the causes or circumstances which may have alienated them, without actual blame on either side. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
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