supplantation

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Etymology

Noun

supplantation (countable and uncountable, plural supplantations)

  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.

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Noun

supplantation f (plural supplantations)

  1. supplantation

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