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/ˈeɪliənˌeɪtəd/ /ˈeɪliənˌeɪtɪd/ Listen

Alienated

adjective

Socially disoriented. Synonyms: anomic, disoriented. "We live in an age of rootless alienated people"

Caused to be unloved. Synonym: estranged.

Alienate

verb

(past & past part. alienated; pres. part. alienating)

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

Transfer property or ownership. Synonym: alien.

Make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated.

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"Alienated" Quotes from Famous Books

... and of Scotland did at the time of the Union each transfer sovereign power to a new sovereign body, namely the Parliament of Great Britain. The British Parliament did in 1782 surrender its sovereignty in Ireland to the Irish Parliament. In 1800 both the British Parliament and the Irish Parliament alienated or surrendered their sovereign powers to the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Compare Dicey, Law of the Constitution (7th ed.), note 3, ...

— A Leap in the Dark - A Criticism of the Principles of Home Rule as Illustrated by the - Bill of 1893 • A.V. Dicey

... immediate change in the situation of affairs at Streatham. Dr. Johnson's visits were as frequent and as protracted as before; Fanny continued to be numbered among the dearest friends of the widow. Not yet had arisen that infatuation which eventually alienated from Mrs. Thrale the sympathy of her former friends, and subjected her, justly or unjustly, to such severe and general condemnation. But to this topic we shall revert ...

— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 1 • Madame D'Arblay

... that if she had not seen that Ellen would have disliked her as a mystificator. She drew her hand across her brow, and immediately perceived that the gesture had so evidently expressed dislike of this obligation to confide that the girl was again alienated, and in desperation she cried out all she meant. "I'm responsible for him in the usual way. By loving his father. Much more than the usual way, most people would tell me, because of course I knew it wasn't lawful. ...

— The Judge • Rebecca West

... us to the heart of the whole matter—the personal equation. The trouble is that the alien and the American do not know each other. Aversion on the one side is met by suspicion on the other. Shut away from intercourse, the alien becomes more alienated, and the American more opinionated, with results that may easily breed trouble. The antidote for prejudice is knowledge. Immigration has made it possible—and in this case possibility is duty—for the consecrated Christian, in this day ...

— Aliens or Americans? • Howard B. Grose

... steadiness of purpose had been toughened in the beginning by the hardships and struggles which he shared with his neighbors; and his self-imposed intellectual discipline in no way impaired the stability of his character, because his personal culture never alienated him from his neighbors and threw him into a consciously critical frame of mind. The time which he spent in intellectual diversion may have diminished to some extent his practical efficiency previous to the gathering crisis. It certainly made him less inclined to the aggressive self-assertion ...

— The Promise Of American Life • Herbert David Croly

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