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alien 1) n. a person who is not a citizen of the country. 2) in the United States any person born in another country to parents who are not American and who has not become a naturalized citizen. There are resident aliens officially permitted to live in the country and illegal aliens who have sneaked into the country or stayed beyond the time allowed on a visa. 3) v. to convey title to property. ALIEN, persons. One born out of the jurisdiction of the United States, who
has not since been naturalized under their constitution and laws. To this
there are some exceptions, as this children of the ministers of the United
States in foreign courts. See Citizen, Inhabitant.
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(9) It is the appearing of that mysterious alterity that
hides in being, in the body that encompasses your own, that holds you,
not with the strength of enfolding arms, but with a tender otherness, an
essential alienness to yourself. (6) As Laura Hyun Yi Kang
points out, issues of national exclusion and inclusion, of alienness and
citizenship, are played out in histories of Asian American women's
immigration and naturalization (132-44). The actual meditation of equanimity is cultivation of the
thought, "May all sentient beings abide in an equanimity free from intimacy
and alienness, desire and hatred. |
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