Strangeling
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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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