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Definition of Supplanting
1. Noun. Act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics.
Definition of Supplanting
1. Verb. (present participle of supplant) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Supplanting
1. supplant [v] - See also: supplant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Supplanting
Literary usage of Supplanting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Democracy in Europe: A History by Thomas Erskine May (1878)
"At this period, also, kings were gradually supplanting their nobles, in the
service of the State, supplanting by the encouragement of learned ecclesiastics ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"In the West, the Roman Rite was first affecting, then supplanting, all others,
and in the East the Byzantine Rite was gradually obtaining the same position. ..."
3. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the (1898)
"... fast supplanting white workmen. His plurality was 3702—a change in two LORD,
William Paine, ninth slate governor of Oregon (1894 ), was born in Dover, ..."
4. Memoirs of the Court of England: From the Revolution in 1688 to the Death of by John Heneage Jesse (1843)
"St. John's sanguine hopes of supplanting Walpole.—Death of the King fatal to his
hopes. — He retires to Dawley. — His affected love of retirement. ..."
5. The African Repository by American Colonization Society (1848)
"... gradually, but certainly, supplanting the colored man in his employments, and
driving him from his temporary home. VI.—Free colored population in Ohio, ..."
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