All 3 Uses of
estrange
in
Persuasion, by Jane Austen
- It was a perpetual estrangement.†
Chpt 8 *
- She had too old a regard for him to be so wholly estranged as might in two meetings extinguish every past hope, and leave him nothing to do but to keep away from Uppercross: but there was such a change as became very alarming, when such a man as Captain Wentworth was to be regarded as the probable cause.†
Chpt 9estranged = separated or no longer emotionally close
- There they exchanged again those feelings and those promises which had once before seemed to secure everything, but which had been followed by so many, many years of division and estrangement.†
Chpt 23
Definitions:
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(1)
(estrange) arouse hostility or indifference where there had formerly been affection or sympathy
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, estrange may mean to remove from customary environment or associations.