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Definition of Supplantation
1. n. The act of supplanting or displacing.
Definition of Supplantation
1. Noun. The act of supplanting; displacement. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Supplantation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Supplantation
Literary usage of Supplantation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"This general desire of aggrandizing themselves ... betrays men to a thousand
ridiculous and mischievous acts of supplantation and detraction. ..."
2. The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life by John Donne (1839)
"Nay if they would remove him by way of preferment, yet that is a supplantation;
when Jacob had Esau by tho heel, whether ho kept him in5, till he might be ..."
3. A Collection of the Laws and Canons of the Church of England: From Its First by John Baron, John Johnson, Church of England (1851)
"We forbid all d supplantation of churches. ' William the Conqueror and his minions
... this is what the synod here calls a supplantation of churches. ..."
4. The History of Florence by Niccolò Machiavelli (1891)
"supplantation : Agamemnon's taking of Briseis from Achilles ; The Supplanting of
Troilus with Cressida by Diomede ; Story of ..."
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