alienans

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An alienans adjective. rhetoric
形容词 adj.
  1. Negating, denying, modifying, or casting doubt on the applicability of its modificand. not-comparable,rhetoric
    — 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.

词源

词源 1
From Latin aliēnāns, present active participle of aliēnō (“make something another's”), from aliēnus (“another's, foreign”).
词源 2
From Latin aliēnāns, present active participle of aliēnō (“make something another's”), from aliēnus (“another's, foreign”).
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