Supplantation

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of supplanting. countable, uncountable

    "c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Measure for Measure Habitual supplantation of immediate selfishness."

  2. 2
    The condition of having been displaced. countable, uncountable

Etymology

* supplant + -ation * Contrast French supplantation, Latin supplantatio (“hypocritical deceit”)

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