different between alienate vs alienor

English

Etymology

From Middle English alienat, from Latin ali?n?tus, perfect passive participle of ali?n? (“alienate, estrange”), from ali?nus. See alien, and confer aliene.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?.li.?.ne?t/

Adjective

alienate (not comparable)

1. (archaic, followed by "from") Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign
   • 1667, John Milton. Paradise Lost (line 4643)

     O alienate from God.

Noun

alienate (plural alienates)

1. (obsolete) A stranger; an alien.

Verb

alienate (third-person singular simple present alienates, present participle alienating, simple past and past participle alienated)

1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
2. To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted.
   • 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening

     The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present.

Usage notes

Alienate is largely synonymous with estrange. However, alienate is used primarily to refer to driving off (“he alienated her with his atrocious behavior”) or to offend a group (“the imprudent remarks alienated the urban demographic”), while estrange is used rather to mean “cut off relations”, particularly in a family setting.

Synonyms

• (estrange): estrange, antagonize, isolate, marginalize

Antonyms

• (estrange): accept

Translations

References

• alienate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Italian

Adjective

alienate f pl

1. feminine plural of alienato

Noun

alienate f

1. plural of alienata

Verb

alienate

1. second-person plural present of alienare
2. second-person plural imperative of alienare
3. feminine plural past participle of alienare

Anagrams

• aneliate

Latin

Verb

ali?n?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ali?n?

Middle English

Adjective

alienate

1. Alternative form of alienat

English

Noun

alienor (plural alienors)

1. A person who alienates a property.

Translations

Anagrams

• aileron, alerion

Latin

Verb

ali?nor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of ali?n?