Word Meanings - CLOWNERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Clownishness. L'Estrange.

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• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• ESTRANGER
  One who estranges.
• CLOWNISHNESS
  The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior. That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness. Locke.
• ESTRANGEDNESS
  State of being estranged; estrangement. Prynne.
• ESTRANGEMENT
  The act of estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation. An estrangement from God. J. C. Shairp. A long estrangement from better things. South.