alienation : Idioms & Phrases
alienation of affection
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noun a tort based on willful and malicious interference with the marriage relation by a third party without justification or excuse
WordNet
Fine for alienation
(Feudal Law) , a sum of money paid to the lord by a tenant whenever he had occasion to make over his land to another. Burrill.
Webster 1913
Mental alienation
- insanity.