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Definition of estrangement in English: estrangementnoun ɪˈstreɪn(d)ʒm(ə)ntɛˈstreɪn(d)ʒm(ə)ntɛsˈtreɪn(d)ʒmənt mass noun1The fact of no longer being on friendly terms or part of a social group. the growing estrangement of the police from their communities Example sentencesExamples - Five years later, a life-altering crisis makes Tessa passionately determined to end this estrangement.
- The point of departure in this work is the religious individual's sense of estrangement from Western culture.
- Mr. Quinn's personal life contributed to his estrangement from the church.
- The gain of a moral commonality was in most cases at the cost of an estrangement from the academic environment.
- The choice, however, between relationship and estrangement is entirely ours.
- She will sense herself diminished and her estrangement will begin.
- No man is capable of rectifying this state of estrangement from God.
- There is no record of estrangement or any lack of devotion towards those he had left behind.
- Such philosophers, who teach estrangement in every sense, are still strangers to one another.
- I was aware that there had been some estrangement between the two.
- Society's estrangement from the future undermines the capacity to generate ideas about what needs to be done.
- The girls confront each other about their dead mom and their growing estrangement.
- Her novel is not about suicide but about friendship, loyalty, family tie and estrangement in global communities.
- Even its somber rhythms, tinged with a cold electronic feeling, speak of disillusionment and estrangement.
- Most of his clients are people distraught at the estrangement of a family member.
- The mutual estrangement has obscured in many respects the view of the living unique character of the other.
- It also visualizes her estrangement from her companions at an all-women's college at Oxford.
- Certain social factors, such as disparities in socioeconomic status, can lead to estrangement and alienation between individuals.
- This estrangement from her father was the hardest thing to bear.
- Jen's account shows how deeply-felt were her experiences of estrangement from well meaning, middle-class women.
Synonyms alienation, turning away, antagonism, antipathy, disaffection, hostility, unfriendliness, embitteredness, isolation, variance, difference parting, separation, division, divorce, disunity, distance, break-up, split, breach, severance, schism - 1.1 The fact of no longer living with one's spouse or partner; separation.
a parent's rights in the event of divorce or estrangement Example sentencesExamples - Despite their estrangement, Agatha thinks constantly of James, and he of her.
- Only a second reading will reveal that it is also the event responsible for Lewis and Priscilla's long estrangement.
- Schlegel settled in Berlin in 1802, and the increasing estrangement between them was resolved by a divorce in 1803.
- By 1982's Shoot Out The Lights the marriage was being openly dissected and both partners were on the way to permanent estrangement.
- Betjeman refused and blamed Waugh in part for the estrangement in his marriage.
- She ended up starring in the ill fated Buffalo 66, which led to their estrangement.
- Her marriage to Mick appears to take the brunt of it although there is no obvious reason for their estrangement.
- He says that my father's bankruptcy "seems to have begun an estrangement between Jabez Barwick and his wife."
- However angry with him I was, I could not stand another day of estrangement from him.
- Asked to comment on his recent estrangement from his spouse, Rempel was unapologetic.
- C. Hosea was in a state of estrangement with his wife Gomer.
Definition of estrangement in US English: estrangementnounesˈtrān(d)ZHməntɛsˈtreɪn(d)ʒmənt 1The fact of no longer being on friendly terms or part of a social group. the growing estrangement of the police from their communities Example sentencesExamples - Most of his clients are people distraught at the estrangement of a family member.
- Such philosophers, who teach estrangement in every sense, are still strangers to one another.
- There is no record of estrangement or any lack of devotion towards those he had left behind.
- Society's estrangement from the future undermines the capacity to generate ideas about what needs to be done.
- The girls confront each other about their dead mom and their growing estrangement.
- Certain social factors, such as disparities in socioeconomic status, can lead to estrangement and alienation between individuals.
- The mutual estrangement has obscured in many respects the view of the living unique character of the other.
- The gain of a moral commonality was in most cases at the cost of an estrangement from the academic environment.
- This estrangement from her father was the hardest thing to bear.
- I was aware that there had been some estrangement between the two.
- Her novel is not about suicide but about friendship, loyalty, family tie and estrangement in global communities.
- The choice, however, between relationship and estrangement is entirely ours.
- It also visualizes her estrangement from her companions at an all-women's college at Oxford.
- Even its somber rhythms, tinged with a cold electronic feeling, speak of disillusionment and estrangement.
- She will sense herself diminished and her estrangement will begin.
- No man is capable of rectifying this state of estrangement from God.
- Jen's account shows how deeply-felt were her experiences of estrangement from well meaning, middle-class women.
- Five years later, a life-altering crisis makes Tessa passionately determined to end this estrangement.
- Mr. Quinn's personal life contributed to his estrangement from the church.
- The point of departure in this work is the religious individual's sense of estrangement from Western culture.
Synonyms alienation, turning away, antagonism, antipathy, disaffection, hostility, unfriendliness, embitteredness, isolation, variance, difference - 1.1 The fact of no longer living with one's spouse; separation.
a parent's rights in the event of divorce or estrangement Example sentencesExamples - Her marriage to Mick appears to take the brunt of it although there is no obvious reason for their estrangement.
- Despite their estrangement, Agatha thinks constantly of James, and he of her.
- He says that my father's bankruptcy "seems to have begun an estrangement between Jabez Barwick and his wife."
- However angry with him I was, I could not stand another day of estrangement from him.
- Betjeman refused and blamed Waugh in part for the estrangement in his marriage.
- Schlegel settled in Berlin in 1802, and the increasing estrangement between them was resolved by a divorce in 1803.
- By 1982's Shoot Out The Lights the marriage was being openly dissected and both partners were on the way to permanent estrangement.
- Asked to comment on his recent estrangement from his spouse, Rempel was unapologetic.
- C. Hosea was in a state of estrangement with his wife Gomer.
- She ended up starring in the ill fated Buffalo 66, which led to their estrangement.
- Only a second reading will reveal that it is also the event responsible for Lewis and Priscilla's long estrangement.
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