Meanings of long estrangement in English

He remained friends with Bev during her long estrangement from Brian.

They were white and hoary with old age and long estrangement from furniture polish.

In it I have asked her to forgive me, and to forget our long estrangement.

Perhaps, after long estrangement, after much tragedy, the South had brought them together in the end.

You will say that by perseverance in this long estrangement we have ignored the last of these.

During the summer, this tragedy of long estrangement and death gave way to the tragi-comedy of Mr Jones.

Her own marriage had been a disaster, ending in a long estrangement, followed by her husband's suicide fifteen years ago.

There is a bitterness in the reconciliation which follows long estrangement, that yields a pang more acute even than the first disunion.

From this first day she separated herself as much as possible from any thought of guilt or complicity in the long estrangement.

In the agitation of the moment, I forgot the long estrangement between us; I half lifted my hand to take hers, and checked myself.

Add tears, scorn, frequent innuendo, long estrangement, bitter outbreak, passionate appeals to Heaven, and the like, and we may fancy the widow's state of mind.