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单词 alienatory
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alienatoryn.

Misprint for alienator n. in Webster (1864).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2019).

alienatoryadj.

Brit. /ˌeɪlɪəˈneɪt(ə)ri/, /ˈeɪlɪənət(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˌeɪliəˈneɪˌtɔri/, /ˌeɪljəˈneɪˌtɔri/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: alienate v., -ory suffix2.
Etymology: < alienate v. + -ory suffix2. Compare earlier alienating adj., alienative adj.
rare before the late 19th cent.
Of, relating to, or characterized by alienation (in various senses); alienating.
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1716 J. Reynolds Zeal a Virtue 8 This general Inclination..of the Soul to Good,..the Moralists usually call Prosecution: As the contrary Aversion (or alienatory Motion) from Evil, they stile, Flight.
1828 Morning Chron. 24 Mar. 2/3 It should have declared the rents of entailed estates to be purely alienatory, neither assignable, nor liable to be seized by legal process.
1885 Q. Rev. 161 68 Another trace of the primitive Aryan conceptions of society is to be observed in the still existing distinction between the alienatory power of a father as to acquired land.
1919 Fortnightly Feb. 266 Bismarckian ‘Power’..fails because its tendencies are alienatory and inhuman.
1989 R. Warren in W. Shakespeare Cymbeline iii. 46 The play... was Brechtian in appearance; was it Brechtian in alienatory effect?
2003 Observer (Nexis) 8 June (Review section) 6 Benjamin valued the camera as an alienatory tool, which censored affection and intimacy.
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