[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The act of estranging, or transferring to another owner. (Mostly gerundial.)
1591. Percivall, Sp. Dict., Agenamiento, casting off a sonne, alienating.
1645. Milton, Tetrach. (1851), 230. Law more justly did permitt the alienating of that evil which mistake made proper.
1704. Addison, Italy, 15. Never entertain’d a Thought … of alienating any part of these Revenues.
1849. Alison, Hist. Eur., I. iii. § 151. 423. It was intended to conciliate—it had the effect of alienating.
