supplantation
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
- supplant + -ation
- Contrast French supplantation, Latin supplantatio (“hypocritical deceit”)
Noun[edit]
supplantation (countable and uncountable, plural supplantations)
- The act of supplanting.
- c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Measure for Measure
- Habitual supplantation of immediate selfishness.
- c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Measure for Measure
- The condition of having been displaced.
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French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
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Noun[edit]
supplantation f (plural supplantations)
Further reading[edit]
- “supplantation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.