strangening en · VERB · etymology 1
Etymology
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Meanings
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(form-of, participle, present) present participle of strangen
form of strangen
Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
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From strangen + -ing.
Of course this deliberate strangening was an artificial procedure, but based on the valid idea that it is the poem (or painting or building) that matters, so that you should make the most direct contact with it that you can, first as a physical object appealing to the senses, […]2009, Robert Harbison, Travels in the History of Architecture: