Definition of alienation

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

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Abalienation :: Abalienation (n.) The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement.
Forfeit :: Forfeit (p. p. / a.) In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation.
Estrangement :: Estrangement (n.) The act of estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation..
Nonalienation :: Nonalienation (n.) Failure to alienate; also, the state of not being alienated..
Disunion :: Disunion (n.) A breach of concord and its effect; alienation.
Disaffection :: Disaffection (n.) State of being disaffected; alienation or want of affection or good will, esp. toward those in authority; unfriendliness; dislike..
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..
Distance :: Distance (n.) A withholding of intimacy; alienation; coldness; disagreement; variance; restraint; reserve.
Alienation :: Alienation (n.) A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections..
Alienation :: Alienation (n.) The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated..
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..
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..
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..
Alienation :: Alienation (n.) A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another..
Distaste :: Distaste (n.) Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger.
Aberration :: Aberration (n.) A partial alienation of reason.
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..
Abalienate :: Abalienate (v. t.) To cause alienation of (mind).
Inalienably :: Inalienably (adv.) In a manner that forbids alienation; as, rights inalienably vested..
Alienation :: Alienation (n.) Mental alienation; derangement of the mental faculties; insanity; as, alienation of mind..
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