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English
Etymology
From substitution + -ary.
Adjective
substitutionary (comparative more substitutionary, superlative most substitutionary)
- Of or relating to substitution or replacement.
1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. , volume I, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., , →OCLC, page 209:I did not perceive that his irony, his secret, and his parade of feeling, were all alike theatrical, and substitutionary for real interest and sincerity.
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