supplantation

English

Etymology

• supplant +‎ -ation
• Contrast French supplantation, Latin supplantatio (“hypocritical deceit”)

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.

Synonyms

• displacement

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

supplantation f (plural supplantations)

1. supplantation

Further reading

• “supplantation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.