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Definition of Alienating
1. Adjective. Causing hostility or loss of friendliness. "Her sudden alienating aloofness"
Definition of Alienating
1. Verb. (present participle of alienate) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Alienating
1. alienate [v] - See also: alienate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alienating
Literary usage of Alienating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... reigned in the Imperial court, were mutually apprehensive of alienating, and
perhaps exasperating, the minds of a powerful, though declining faction. ..."
2. Civil Procedure Reports: Containing Cases Under the Code of Civil Procedure by New York (State), Henry Huffman Browne, Courts, Rufus Leonard Scott, James Manford Kerr, Percival Soloman Menken (1891)
"An action for alienating the affections of plaintiffs husband by false, slanderous,
and malicious reports regarding the plaintiff, whether considered an ..."
3. Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and by Henry Hallam (1887)
"The right of alienating altogether the territory, he Right of grants to patrimonial
sovereigns; but he denies alienating that a part can be separated from ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The power of alienating real estate may not be suspended for more than two lives
in being and twenty-one years thereafter, except when granted to (a) a ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Marital Rights in Texas: Including Marriage by Ocie Speer (1916)
"ENTICING, alienating, AND CRIMINAL CONVERSATION. 5 92. The conjugal rights generally.
% 98. Criminal conversation; genii 93. Enticing and alienating. erally ..."
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