Word Meanings - CLOWNERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Clownishness. L'Estrange.
Related words: (words related to CLOWNERY)
- 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.