displantation

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English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ plantation.

Noun

displantation (countable and uncountable, plural displantations)

  1. The act of displanting; removal; displacement.
    • 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World , London: William Stansby for Walter Burre, , →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
      This dreadful precedent extremely displeased the Boii; who being neighbours to Ariminum, feared the like displantation

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for displantation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)