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In literature, "alienated" is often used to convey a sense of being estranged or separated from a person, group, or even an abstract concept such as God or one's own nature. Authors employ it to depict political, religious, or personal disaffection—from characters whose isolation culminates in loss of allies or respect, as seen in accounts of political betrayal [1, 2], to those who become emotionally detached and distant from family or divine favor [3, 4, 5]. The term further extends into discussions of property or rights becoming divested or transferred away, emphasizing a rupture of traditional bonds [6, 7]. Ultimately, its versatile use across historical, philosophical, and narrative texts reflects complex shifts in human relationships and social structures [8, 9, 10].
  1. Thus the action of Louis—and he alone was the directing government of France—struck at the roots of her sea power, and alienated her best sea ally.
    — from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. Mahan
  2. This atrocious massacre, and the murder of a cousin much beloved by the people, alienated their affections from him.
    — from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) by Henri Mouhot
  3. He felt himself alienated from God, a discord in the harmonies of the universe.
    — from Old Portraits and Modern Sketches Part 1 from Volume VI of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier
  4. Then, as I grew weaker, a terror came over me: Perhaps I had alienated God by cursing him.
    — from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
  5. I was not made the less so by my sense of being daily more and more shut out and alienated from my mother.
    — from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
  6. r shall the firstfruits of the land be alienated, because they are sanctified to the Lord.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  7. And they shall not sell thereof, nor exchange, neither shall the firstfruits of the land be alienated, because they are sanctified to the Lord.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  8. If every right is alienated in the Social Contract, what sense can there be in talking of "natural rights" afterwards?
    — from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  9. She went out, looked at the cage, buried the starved little singer, and from that hour her heart softened towards the self-alienated man.
    — from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
  10. Natásha suddenly shrank into herself and involuntarily assumed an offhand air which alienated Princess Mary still more.
    — from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy

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