Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Alienage"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Alienage \Al"ien*age\, n. [Cf. OF. ali['e]nage.]
1. The state or legal condition of being an alien.

Note: The disabilities of alienage are removable by
naturalization or by special license from the State of
residence, and in some of the United States by
declaration of intention of naturalization. --Kent.
Wharton.

Estates forfeitable on account of alienage.
--Story.

2. The state of being alienated or transferred to another.
--Brougham.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

alienage
n : the quality of being alien [syn: {alienism}]

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