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单词 distantiate
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distantiatev.

Brit. /dᵻˈstanʃɪeɪt/, /dᵻˈstɑːnʃɪeɪt/, U.S. /dəˈstæn(t)ʃiˌeɪt/
Forms: 1600s 1900s– distantiate, 1900s– distanciate (nonstandard).
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin distantia , -ate suffix3.
Etymology: < classical Latin distantia distance n. + -ate suffix3. Compare earlier distance v.The form distanciate shows remodelling after distance n. With sense 2 compare distantiation n.
1. transitive. To measure the length of (a line or route). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > measure (off) a length or distance [verb (transitive)] > measure distance of
distantiate1610
distance1706
1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. v. 55 From conuenient distances in the same, distantiate euery By, dispersed in the Plot.
2. transitive. To distance (oneself) from something, esp. mentally or intellectually; to set or keep (an idea, feeling, etc.) at a distance.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > distance > distance or farness > be far from [verb (transitive)] > put at or remove to a distance
farOE
fersec1000
far-casta1340
removec1384
proloynec1425
prolong1440
purloin1461
elong1477
enstrange1483
eloin1535
elongatec1540
distance1578
discoast1583
eloinate1642
outpost1864
distantiate1924
1924 [implied in: Jrnl. Philos. 21 658 The human mind was to be conceived at a respectable distance from the entire flux of universal realities. It was to be conceived in terms of the safest distantiation from the world. (at distantiation n.)].
1938 A. Kolnai War against West iv. 179 The higher race cannot distantiate itself effectively from mere mankind.
1972 M. Mead Blackberry Winter (1973) 26 By putting the promptings of the senses and of the unconscious at a distance, she also distantiated humor.
1995 Stud. Romanticism 34 408 But what The Eve of St Agnes does do in relation to ideology, as a work of art.., is to distantiate it.
2013 Internat. Jrnl. Politics, Culture, & Soc. 26 99 He hastened to distantiate himself from the negationist implications of the Milosevic defense.

Derivatives

diˈstantiating adj. that sets or keeps something at a distance, esp. mentally or intellectually.
ΚΠ
1948 L. Spitzer Linguistics & Lit. Hist. iii. 111 The ‘distantiating demonstrative’..suggests a point of view from outside the situation; when we say, for example, dans ce pays ‘in this country’, instead of dans notre pays ‘in our country’, there is effected..a disinterested comparison with other countries.
2006 Eighteenth Cent. 47 141 A conversion of the ethnographic present and intersubjectivity essential to fieldwork into a distantiating, objectifying ethnographic discourse about others.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
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