单词 | alienating |
释义 | alienatingn. The action of alienate v. (in various senses); alienation. Also: an instance of this. ΚΠ 1563 A. Brooke Agreem. Sondry Places Script. 74 Ther was no offence or starting backe, and therfore ther was no separation or alienating. 1575 A. Golding tr. Prince of Orange Let. in tr. Iustification Prince of Orendge 135 The sayd assurances and promises haue..caused many men of good wealth and countenance to forbeare the alienating of their goodes. 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Agenamiento Casting off a sonne, alienating. 1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 59 Law more justly did permitt the alienating of that evil which mistake made proper. 1669 J. Stewart Jus Populi Vindicatum viii. 164 He is limited in alienating of lands, possessions or moveable goods. 1729 J. Ogilvie tr. P. Giannone Civil Hist. Kingdom Naples I. xi. v. 533 Barons and other Feudatories, notwithstanding the Prohibition of Alienating, are allowed to settle a Dowry on their Wives. 1747 T. Mall's Hist. Martyrs II. 169 The Christian Life wholly consists, not only in the Alienating of our selves from these temporal Things, but likewise from all Self-love. 1833 A. Alison Hist. Europe during French Revol. I. ii. 112 It was intended to conciliate; it had the effect of alienating. 1889 Sessional Papers Province Ont. XXI. 21 A settlement of boundaries between provinces is not to be regarded as an alienating of territory by the one to the other. 1919 Fortn. Rev. 1 Nov. 713 They [sc. railwaymen] took a very serious step toward the alienating of public sympathy by striking without the customary seven days' notice. 1999 S. Fernando in M. Ulas & A. Connor Mental Health & Social Work vii. 123 The result is an essentially racist service arising from apparent sensitivity to ‘cultural difference’ and the alienating of brown and black people. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). alienatingadj. That alienates; causing feelings of aversion, hostility, or isolation; spec. (Theatre) designed to make an audience remain emotionally distant from the characters or action of a play, etc. (cf. alienation n. 1c). ΚΠ 1661 R. Baxter Petition for Peace 1 Exasperating and alienating differences. 1672 R. Baxter Church told of Bagshaw's Scandals i. 5 I foresaw that some interessed men would be angry, as supposing that I would hinder their alienating work. 1748 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 21 June in Lett. to Son (1774) I. 300 Awkwardness of carriage is very alienating; and a total negligence of dress, and air, is an impertinent insult upon custom and fashion. 1790 R. Gray Key Old Test. & Apocrypha 99 The peculiar and alienating prohibitions, which restrained the Israelites from associating with other nations. 1847 Monthly Relig. Mag. Mar. 138 Such is the nature of human passions engendered by war, and such are the alienating and embittering effects of that inhuman business. 1898 B. Whitby Sunset (ed. 4) xviii. 302 He had no idea what an alienating method growling in man, or dog, becomes. 1922 E. S. Holloway Pract. Bk. furnishing Small House & Apartment i. 46 We find it [sc. red] to have an alienating quality against those tones..that are cold. 1969 Life 3 Oct. 56 a/3 I would rather work 20 hours a day on something that gives me real satisfaction than three hours a day on an alienating job that bores me. 1989 B. Vickers Returning to Shakespeare 93 It seems to me an odd misuse of modern theatre aesthetics to believe that asides and soliloquies are ‘distancing’ or ‘alienating’ devices: Rather the opposite. 2006 Time Out N.Y. 22 June 147/4 [His] new take on Beckett's existentialist inertia-fest imagines how much more alienating life is now than it was in those sunny 1940s. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1563adj.1661 |
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