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Definition of Estranging
1. Adjective. Making one feel out of place or alienated. "The landscape was estranging"
Similar to: Disorienting
Definition of Estranging
1. Verb. (present participle of estrange) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Estranging
1. estrange [v] - See also: estrange
Lexicographical Neighbors of Estranging
Literary usage of Estranging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poet Lore (1921)
"... (literally five) words long' of English verse—a phrase complete and final,
with epithets in unerring cumulation 'The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea. ..."
2. Essays, Theological and Literary by Richard Holt Hutton (1880)
"... salt, estranging sea." That last line is inexhaustible in beauty and force.
Without any false emphasis or prolix, dwelling on the matter, it shadows out ..."
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