distantiate

English

Verb

distantiate (third-person singular simple present distantiates, present participle distantiating, simple past and past participle distantiated)

1. To distance (to put or keep at a literal or metaphorical or mental distance).
   • 1610, Folkingham, Art of Survey, II. v. 55:

     Extend from some fewe Maine Angls Base lines for Boundaries […] and from conuenient distances in the same, distantiate euery By.

   • 1884, Gustaf Lindström, On the Silurian Gastropoda and Pteropoda of Gotland, page 167:

     It deviates, however, in having the coils more distantiated.

   • 2005, Gary Bridge, Reason in the City of Difference: Pragmatism, Communicative Action and Contemporary Urbanism, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 9:

     If cities are more and more decentralized and distantiated, emergent and networked, full of automatic activities and surface manifestations[,] this works against the rational city in a number of ways.

   • 2013, Isher-Paul Sahni, “More than Horseplay”, in Studies in Popular Culture, volume 35, page 77:

     The first hypothesis stems from an acute awareness of how performances today are more than frequently scripted and of the extent to which actors are by and large separated from their real life personas. The distantiating verisimilitude that characterizes the bulk of what passes for reality entertainment, though, is obviously absent in Jackass.

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