alienations
- plural of alienation.
Example Sentences
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Events of every description, changes, alienations, removals, – all, all must be comprised in it; and oblivion of the past – how natural, how certain too!
From Slate • Feb. 13, 2021
John David Washington’s performance in BlacKkKlansman is impressive but the film’s quasi-Brechtian alienations and comic cartoonery arguably mean that it is more difficult to engage with his character emotionally.
From The Guardian • Jan. 4, 2019
An edict of the king's had revoked all the graces and alienations of domains granted by his father.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 by Black, Robert
An agreement such as is desired by the discontented would only intensify our alienations, embitter the strife, and protract the war upon subordinate and insignificant issues.
From Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 by Boutwell, George S.
Will you say that the alienations made before the 11th of Elizabeth shall not stand good?
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
