noun
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The act of alienating.
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The state of being alienated.
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Emotional isolation or dissociation.
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Verfremdungseffekt.
Examples of alienation in a Sentence
The alienation was not, however, for long.
The courts pronounced the alienation fines illegal.
Up to this time he was entirely ignorant of mathematics, his father having carefully held him aloof from a study which he rightly apprehended would lead to his total alienation from that of medicine.
Sin is the contradiction of that purpose, and guilt is alienation from the family.
The purpose was reasonable, but it was impossible to draw an ideal line and the result was a general alienation of the press.
And the raft of measures was completely counter to reducing alienation and extremism.
However, it could be connected with the growing evidence of Protestant alienation.
Such clashing of interests was sure to produce alienation, but the king remained apparently blind to the signs of the times, and the severe enforcement of a harsh law restricting freedom of the press led suddenly in 1830 to a revolt (see Belgium), which, beginning at Brussels at the end of August, rapidly spread over the whole country.
The alienation of Croat and Magyar - for centuries close allies in the struggle against the Turk - grew rapidly in the 'forties, mainly owing to the aggressive legislation passed by successive Hungarian diets, and tending to curtail Croatia's ancient liberties and extend the sway of the Magyar language.
His references are wide, ranging from urban alienation to alternative religions.
Children who steal are often expressing displaced feelings of anxiety, rage, or alienation resulting from a disruption in their life, such as a parent's divorce or remarriage.
This was in accord with native laws - that the land is the property of the people, held in trust for them by their chiefs, who have not the power of alienation.
These companies help preserve local culture through the maintenance of community pubs which in turn prevents social alienation.
To avoid alienation of patient groups, NICE needs to demonstrate that patients ' views have had more than a marginal impact.
To me, he signified the threatening danger was not so much death, as permanent alienation of intellect.
The evidence of political alienation from public life is now very strong.
Writing, deals with alienation provided by language; or what may be called the endless delirium of language.
The degree to which a culture is ruled by time is a pretty exact measure of its alienation.
But the alienation has created a vacuum in the leadership of the black liberation movement.
The Decretum forbade their alienation to lay proprietors, denounced excommunication against those who refused to pay, and based the right of the Church upon scriptural precedents.6 The decretals contained provisions as to what was and what was not tithable property, as to those privileged from payment, as to sale or hypothecation to laymen, as to priority over state taxes, &c. 7 Various questions which arose later were settled by Boniface VIII.
After the voicemail message was released April 21, 2007, Baldwin issued a public apology via the guestbook on his Web site stating, "I have been driven to the edge by parental alienation for many years now.
While it's true that Straight Edge clothing expertly mimics the alienation and sense of discord most young men feel at some time or another, it's worth noting what the line lacks, namely, pants.
Studies have shown a direct correlation between stealing and alienation.
Because of this fact, social alienation is common in trichotillomania.
To resolve the conflict without permanent alienation and estrangement, there are several options.
Some may experience social alienation or ridicule due to their peculiar behaviors and narrow interests.
His lyrics are saturated with themes of paranoia, alienation, and in retrospect, seem to romanticize and dramatize the idea of suicide.
His aversion from the ordinary radicalism led to an article upon slavery in 1849, to which Mill replied, and which caused their final alienation.
In his reign was begun the reckless system of foreign loans, carried to excess in the ensuing reign, and culminating in default, which led to the alienation of European sympathy from Turkey and, indirectly, to the dethronement and death of Abd-ul-Aziz.
In June 1055 Victor met the emperor at Florence, and held a council, which anew condemned clerical marriages, simony and the alienation of the estates of the church.
He seems to have been freed for a time from the pangs of gout only to be afflicted with a species of mental alienation bordering on insanity.
He was also appointed receiver-general of the alienation office, a sinecure post which brought him -C700 a year.
Though Fox and he were on friendly terms in society, yet Burke admits that for a considerable period before 1790 there had been between them "distance, coolness and want of confidence, if not total alienation on his part."
In the view of primitive Christians ordinary human society was a world temporarily surrendered to Satanic rule, over which a swift and sudden destruction was impending; in such a world the little band who were gathered in the ark of the church could have no part or lot, - the only attitude they could maintain was that of passive alienation.
On the other hand, it was difficult practically to realize this alienation, and a keen sense of this difficulty induced the same hostility to the body as a clog and hindrance, that we find to some extent in Plato, but more fully developed in Neoplatonism, Neopythagoreanism, and other products of the mingling of Greek with Oriental thought.
This last problem was consonant with Marx's own appeal to workers to overcome the alienation of capitalism.
How do we now read the signs of social alienation in many parts of society?
They pay no attention to the alienation of those living precarious existences in a low-wage, insecure " competitive " global economy.
Both crises have their roots in the alienation of a whole generation of our young, and especially our ethnic minority, urban poor.
She, along with her son, was escorted into Austria by Count von Neipperg, and refused to comply with the entreaties and commands of Napoleon to proceed to Elba; and her alienation from him was completed when he ventured to threaten her with a forcible abduction if she did not obey.
But she has a voice in public affairs; she has laws to protect her, manages the household and goes unveiled; she has a right to the money she earns; she can inherit under wills, and bequeath property, though to avoid the alienation of real property, succession to it is denied her.
Toch (1992) concludes that the prison subculture of violence is maintained by anomie and alienation.
As the alienation of voters increases, technology is increasingly been touted as a magical cure for this pressing political problem.
This commercial policy had indeed a deeper and more fatal effect than the alienation of the towns; it secularized still further the brethren of the Order, and made them financiers instead of soldiers.
The alienation of Maurepas was also increasing.
This " principle of aviticity " (osiseg, aviticum), which survived till 1848, was intended to preserve the large feudal estates as part of the new military system, but its ultimate effect was to hamper the development of the country by preventing the alienation, and therefore the mortgaging of lands, so long as any, however distant, scion of the original owning family survived.'
With the growing weakness and corruption of the Hasmonaean princes, and the alienation of a large part of the nation from their cause, the hope of a better kingship begins to appear in Judaea also; at first darkly shadowed forth in the Book of Enoch (chap. xc.), where the white steer, the future leader of God's herd after the deliverance from the heathen, stands in a certain contrast to the actual dynasty (the horned lambs); and then much more clearly, and for the first time with use of the name Messiah, in the Psalter of Solomon, the chief document of the protest of Pharisaism against its enemies the later Hasmonaeans.
Catholic romanticism had withered Alienation away in France, as it had in Germany.
Although he wrote a letter to Queen Elizabeth remonstrating against the alienation of church property, Whitgift always retained her special confidence.
The The claim of the Papacy to political supremacy received domestic in his time its death-blow, and the popes themselves policy of sowed the seeds of the alienation from Rome which Louis.