alienage
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- noun The official status of an alien.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun The state of being an alien; the legal standing of an alien.
- noun The state of being alienated or transferred to another; alienation.
Examples
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It is also essential to understanding alienage and citizenship.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Shedding Light on the AZ Immigration Law
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Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected, so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or “outsideness” without laying stress on the emotion of fear.
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In her decision, Bolton also found that race, alienage, or national origin discrimination was a motivating factor in the enactment of S.B. 1070, and maintained that the lawsuit was appropriate due to the alleged harm to the organizational plaintiffs will occur if S.B. 1070 goes into effect, regardless of how it is enforced or applied.
Federal Judge Rejects Jan Brewer's Challenge To Arizona Immigration Lawsuit
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Contested Citizenships May 7-8, 2009 calls attention to those in-between categories of citizenship and alienage: the second-class; the refugee; the foreign national; the detainee; the undocumented worker; and the asylum seeker.
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What concern have we with the shades of dialect in Homer or Theocritus, provided they speak the spiritual _lingua franca_ that abolishes all alienage of race, and makes whatever shore of time we land on hospitable and homelike?
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It was stipulated that the subjects or citizens of one government, holding lands in the dominions of the other government, should continue to hold them without alienage; nor, in the event of war or other national differences, should there be any confiscation by either party of debts, or of public or private stocks, due to or held by the citizens or subjects of the other.
Note
The word 'alienage' is formed from 'alien' and '-age'.
