Both Uses of
estrange
in
Mansfield Park
- Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connexions can supply; and it must be by a long and unnatural estrangement, by a divorce which no subsequent connexion can justify, if such precious remains of the earliest attachments are ever entirely outlived.†
Chpt 24
- Fanny estranged from him, silent and reserved, was an unnatural state of things; a state which he must break through, and which he could easily learn to think she was wanting him to break through.†
Chpt 35 *
Definition:
arouse hostility or indifference where there had formerly been affection or sympathy