Definition of alienation

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Alienation (n.) A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections..

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Alienation :: Alienation (n.) The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated..
Disunion :: Disunion (n.) A breach of concord and its effect; alienation.
Discontinuance :: Discontinuance (n.) A breaking off or interruption of an estate, which happened when an alienation was made by a tenant in tail, or other tenant, seized in right of another, of a larger estate than the tenant was entitled to, whereby the party ousted or injured was driven to his real action, and could not enter. This effect of such alienation is now obviated by statute in both England and the United States..
Attornment :: Attornment (n.) The act of a feudatory, vassal, or tenant, by which he consents, upon the alienation of an estate, to receive a new lord or superior, and transfers to him his homage and service; the agreement of a tenant to acknowledge the purchaser of the estate as his landlord..
Attorn :: Attorn (v. t.) To turn, or transfer homage and service, from one lord to another. This is the act of feudatories, vassals, or tenants, upon the alienation of the estate..
Lunacy :: Lunacy (n.) Insanity or madness; properly, the kind of insanity which is broken by intervals of reason, -- formerly supposed to be influenced by the changes of the moon; any form of unsoundness of mind, except idiocy; mental derangement or alienation..
Disaffection :: Disaffection (n.) State of being disaffected; alienation or want of affection or good will, esp. toward those in authority; unfriendliness; dislike..
Abalienation :: Abalienation (n.) The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement.
Estrangement :: Estrangement (n.) The act of estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation..
Forfeit :: Forfeit (p. p. / a.) In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation.
Abalienate :: Abalienate (v. t.) To cause alienation of (mind).
Nonalienation :: Nonalienation (n.) Failure to alienate; also, the state of not being alienated..
Alienation :: Alienation (n.) A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections..
Alienation :: Alienation (n.) A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another..
Revest :: Revest (v. i.) To take effect or vest again, as a title; to revert to former owner; as, the title or right revests in A after alienation..
Division :: Division (n.) Disunion; difference in opinion or feeling; discord; variance; alienation.
Aberration :: Aberration (n.) A partial alienation of reason.
Megalomania :: Megalomania (n.) A form of mental alienation in which the patient has grandiose delusions.
Distaste :: Distaste (n.) Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger.
Distance :: Distance (n.) A withholding of intimacy; alienation; coldness; disagreement; variance; restraint; reserve.
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