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Definition of Alienated
1. Adjective. Socially disoriented. "We live in an age of rootless alienated people"
2. Adjective. Caused to be unloved.
Definition of Alienated
1. Adjective. Isolated; excluded; estranged. ¹
2. Verb. (past of alienate#Verb alienate) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Alienated
1. alienate [v] - See also: alienate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alienated
Literary usage of Alienated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Mental Philosophy: Abridged and Designed as a Text-book for by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1854)
"Of what is meant by a disordered and alienated state of the sensibilities.
It may be proper to remark here, that an imperfect or disordered action of the ..."
2. The Law of Nations: Or, Principles of the Law of Nature, Applied to the by Emer de Vattel, Joseph Chitty (1883)
"Who ther this rght extends to their property alienated by the enemy. The same
decisions hold good with regard to the immovable property of individuals, ..."
3. Elements of Mental Philosophy Enbracing the Two Departments of the Intellect by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1841)
"That is to say, the merely irregular action becomes an insane or alienated action
when it becomes so great, so pervading, and so deeply rooted in the mind ..."
4. The Imperial Gazetteer of India. by William Wilson Hunter, Great Britain India Office (1908)
"A large proportion of the land has been alienated. These alienations extend not
... include whole villages, of which about 8 per cent. have been alienated. ..."
5. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"I have lately understood of some practising on the Queen's side about portions
of tithes, to keep them still alienated from the Church ; I am bold to give ..."
6. The Law of Nations, Or, Principles of the Law of Nature Applied to the by Emer de Vattel, Joseph Chitty, Edward Duncan Ingraham (1867)
"It is asked whether she thus recovers such part of her property as had been
alienated by the enemy while he kept her in subjection. In the first place, ..."
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