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Definition of Alienness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alienness
Literary usage of Alienness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Critical Realism: A Study of the Nature and Conditions of Knowledge by Roy Wood Sellars (1916)
"Scientists take this alienness for granted as a position essentially self-evident
and not likely to be disputed by anyone who has clear ideas on the subject ..."
2. The Meaning of God in Human Experience: A Philosophic Study of Religion by William Ernest Hocking (1912)
"The alienness and inaccessibility which we are compelled to ascertain from time
to time, not more in the Other Mind than in Nature or in Self, ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"... compatible with retaining the flavor; he never makes it so hard as to interfere
with enjoyment; in few dialect writers do we feel so little alienness. ..."
4. An Ethical Philosophy of Life Presented in Its Main Outlines by Felix Adler (1918)
"alienness is ever productive of disharmony. The fact, however, that the unlike
person in the case of a brother is the child of the same parents draws us ..."
5. Studying the Short-story: Sixteen Short-story Classics, with Introductions by Joseph Berg Esenwein (1918)
"... as to interfere with enjoyment; in few dialect writers do we feel so little
alienness.— CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER'S Library of the World's Best Literature. ..."
6. The Ego and His Own by Max Stirner, Steven Tracy Byington (1913)
"We strip off from it, therefore, the spirit of alienness, of which we had been
afraid. Therefore it is necessary that I do not lay claim to anything more as ..."
7. The Void of War: Letters from Three Fronts by Reginald John Farrer (1918)
"("Soldier," "soudard," "soldado," all express a contempt, a sense of alienness,
of which there is no trace in ..."
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