supplanting

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

Such supplanting was to be. — Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, Thomas Hardy
They are his ultimate criteria and resort, and they conflict with those which the supplanting faith presents as the summum bonum of life. — India, Its Life and Thought, John P. (John Peter) Jones
Instead of the radiant transformation she had expected to find in her--a transformation hitherto as certain under three kind words from Freddy, as the supplanting of night by red-rose day in the visible world--she sees her livid, and with an expression of hopeless stunned despair, such as never before in her saddest moments has been worn by it, on her drawn face. — Doctor Cupid: A Novel, Rhoda Broughton

displacement

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