Disown vs Alienate - What's the difference?
disown | alienate |
To refuse to own or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own.
Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; with from .
To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to wean.
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As verbs the difference between disown and alienate
is that disown is to refuse to own or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own while alienate is to convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.As an adjective alienate is
estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; with from .As a noun alienate is
(obsolete) a stranger; an alien.disown
English
Verb
(en verb)- Lord Capulet and his wife threatened to ''disown'' their daughter Juliet if she didn't go through with marrying Count Paris.
Usage notes
Particularly used of parents regarding their children, and stronger than the similar estrange, which can also be used of children regarding their parents, or of siblings.Synonyms
* disavow * disclaimalienate
English
Adjective
(-)- O alienate from God''. (John Milton). ''Paradise Lost line 4643.
Verb
(alienat)- The errors which alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart.
- The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present.