Sentence example with the word 'estrange'

estrange

abrupt, cast out, disaffect, disunify, exacerbate, leave, pull away, set apart, sic on, stir up trouble, wean

Definition v. remove from customary environment or associations

Last update: August 25, 2015


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In his treatise (page 116) Hume says, speaking of logarithms, ` L'inuenteur estoit un Seigneur de grande condition, et duquel la posterite est aujourd'huy en possession de grandes dignitez dans le royaume, qui extant sur Wage, et grandement trauaille des gouttes ne pouvait faire autre chose que de s'adonner aux sciences, et principalment aux mathematiques et a la logistique, a quoy it se plaisoit infiniment, et auec estrange peine, a construict ses Tables des Logarymes, imprimees a Edinbourg en l'an 1614...   [verb]

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He had no sooner done so than he bitterly repented his weakness; and acting, as he himself says, on the principle that " to take an oath which never ought to have been taken is to estrange one's self from God, but to retract what one has wrongfully sworn to, is to return back to God," when he got safe again into France he attacked the transubstantiation theory more vehemently than ever.   [verb]

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My heart, by thee from all estranged, Becomes like thee unkind.   [verb]

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He feared, after having taken so many steps which had brought him nearer to his father, to now take a step which should estrange him from that father.   [verb]

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Yet now, how distant, how far estranged we were.   [verb]

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So far estranged, that I did not expect him to come and speak to me.   [verb]

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From such of them as were of the cavalier party he was estranged by politics.   [Please select]

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estimable - estrange - chastise