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ESTRANGE, v.t.
1. To keep at a distance; to withdraw; to cease to frequent and be familiar with.
Had we estranged ourselves form them in things indifferent.
I thus estrange my person from her bed.
2. To alienate; to divert from its original use or possessor; to apply to a purpose foreign from its original or customary one.
They have estranged this place, and burnt incense in it to other gods. Jer.19.
3. To alienate, as the affections; to turn from kindness to indifference or malevolence.
I do not know, to this hour, what it is that has estranged him from me.
4. To withdraw; to withhold.
We must estrange our belief from what is not clearly evidenced.
ESTRANGED, pp. Withdrawn; withheld; alienated.
ESTRANGEMENT, n. Alienation; a keeping at a distance; removal; voluntary abstraction; as an estrangement of affection.
An estrangement of desires from better things.
ESTRANGING, ppr. Alienating; withdrawing; keeping at or removing to a distance.
"Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read" —Isaiah 34:16, KJV
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