Alienans Definition
adjective
(rhetoric, philosophy, of a grammatical modifier, especially an adjective) Negating, denying, 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.
In the case of "brown duck", "brown" is not an alienans adjective.
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noun
(rhetoric, philosophy) An alienans adjective.
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Origin of Alienans
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From Latin aliēnāns, present active particple of aliēnō (“make something another's”), from aliēnus (“another's, foreign”).
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