alienans

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Pronunciation

/ˈeɪli.ənænz/

Definition of alienans

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

(not-comparable, rhetoric)Negating, denying, modifying, or casting doubt on the applicability of its modificand.

“The newspaper never called him "the murderer", always "the alleged murderer", but the alienans adjective didn't help very much: the word "murderer" is all people saw.”
“Because a "decoy duck" is not a duck, "decoy" is an alienans adjective.”

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adj

(not-comparable, rhetoric)Negating, denying, modifying, or casting doubt on the applicability of its modificand.

“The newspaper never called him "the murderer", always "the alleged murderer", but the alienans adjective didn't help very much: the word "murderer" is all people saw.”
“Because a "decoy duck" is not a duck, "decoy" is an alienans adjective.”

noun

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

From Latin aliēnāns, present active participle of aliēnō (“make something another's”), from aliēnus (“another's, foreign”).

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