distantiate

present singular third person distantiates · participle present distantiating · participle past distantiated · past distantiated

1. To distance (to put or keep at a literal or metaphorical or mental distance).

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

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

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

   1610, Folkingham, Art of Survey, II. v. 55

   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.

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

   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.

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