Strangeling

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who is strange, foreign, or unusual; stranger.

    "Every strangeling ( Fremdling) has gone through a coming-to-terms with the mother, but has another such ahead: ... An inner voice holds the strangeling back from blasphemy against his own origin, even though he is filled with rebellion."

Example

More examples

"Every strangeling ( Fremdling) has gone through a coming-to-terms with the mother, but has another such ahead: ... An inner voice holds the strangeling back from blasphemy against his own origin, even though he is filled with rebellion."

Etymology

From strange + -ling.

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