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UK
/ɛstɹˈeɪndʒmənt/
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[ US /ɪˈstɹeɪndʒmənt/ ]
[ US /ɪˈstɹeɪndʒmənt/ ]
NOUN
- the feeling of being alienated from other people
- separation resulting from hostility
How To Use estrangement In A Sentence
- The animadversion broke the long estrangement history among Mohammedanism, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, which made a short period of controversy in the Islam ideological history.
- About to be disinherited from the family fortune, Stephen returns to home after a long estrangement and it happens to be the night his father is shot to death. The Inheritance by Simon Tolkien: Book summary
- When you really love something when you will find language how fragile and limp. Text and feeling always have the estrangement.
- The girls confront each other about their dead mom and their growing estrangement.
- There is some risk of the de-coupling of Turkey, Turkey's estrangement from the West, said Ian Lesser. Recent Study Shows Turkey Turning Away from West
- Lionel's inheritance also disappears; after separation, hardship, estrangement, and disinheritance, the Tarrants are happily reconciled, but live separately in London.
- Jen's account shows how deeply-felt were her experiences of estrangement from well meaning, middle-class women.
- No man is capable of rectifying this state of estrangement from God.
- Mr. Quinn's personal life contributed to his estrangement from the church.
- Such philosophers, who teach estrangement in every sense, are still strangers to one another.