displantation
English
editEtymology
editdis- + plantation
Noun
editdisplantation (countable and uncountable, plural displantations)
- 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)