supplantation

noun — 2 senses

supplantation

noun

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

1

The act of supplanting.

  • c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Measure for Measure Habitual supplantation of immediate selfishness.
2

The condition of having been displaced.

Synonyms
displacement, supplantment

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