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make one feel emotionally separated or unfriendly
- This course of conduct had alienated the old bachelor's affection, once strongly fixed upon him.Chapter 21 — The Departure (21% in)
- It has been alienated from the Pyncheons these four-score years; but the Judge had kept it in his eye, and had set his heart on reannexing it to the small demesne still left around the Seven Gables; and now, during this odd fit of oblivion, the fatal hammer must have fallen, and transferred our ancient patrimony to some alien possessor.Chapter 18 — Governor Pyncheon (19% in)
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