alienans

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪli.ənænz/

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alienans (not comparable)

1. (rhetoric, philosophy, of a grammatical modifier, especially an adjective) 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.

alienans

1. (rhetoric, philosophy) An alienans adjective.

• modal
• modality

• Alienans. (n.d.). The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy. Retrieved August 22, 2007, from Answers.com Web site: http://www.answers.com/topic/alienans

• Annalise, alanines, annalise

Present participle of aliēnō.

aliēnāns (genitive aliēnantis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. alienating

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.