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supplantation|ˌsʌplɑːnˈteɪʃən, -æ-|
Also 5 subplant-.
[a. OF. (mod.F.) supplantation (= It. supplantazione, Sp. suplantacion, Pg. supplantação), ad. late L. supplantātio, -ōnem, n. of action f. supplantāre to supplant.]
1. The dispossession or displacement of a person in a position, esp. by dishonourable means.
1390Gower Conf. I. 258 The Mitre with the Diademe He hath thurgh Supplantacion. 1430–40Lydg. Bochas iii. iv. (MS. Bodl. 263) 155/2 Moordre doon for subplantacioun [ed. 1554 supplantacion] Requereth vengaunce. 1592Timme Ten Engl. Lepers E j, Jacob by supplantation attained to a blessing. 1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 266 No iealousies nor suspitions, no enuie nor supplantations. a1631Donne Serm., 1 Cor. xii. 3 (1640) 315 The sinister supplantations of pretenders to places in Court. a1635Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 49 Those that he relyed on, began..to be sensible of their own supplantation, and to project his. 1646Owen Country Ess. Wks. 1851 VIII. 66 Tried and proved ineffectual for the supplantation of truth. 1654Whitelocke Jrnl. Swed. Emb. (1772) II. 83 The..losse of their trade in Muscovia, by supplantation of the Dutch. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 103 ⁋13 No interest in view, and therefore no design of supplantation.
2. The supersession or displacement of one thing by another.
1608Hieron Defence iii. 122 If the sayd ordinance, after a supplantation or other decay therof, be agayne restored & reestablished. c1819Coleridge Lit. Rem. (1836) II. 123 A complete suppression and habitual supplantation of immediate selfishness. 1837W. A. Butler Serm. Ser. ii. xix. (1856) 283 That Church of perfect holiness shall be not the supplantation of the present, but its continuance.
†3. Overthrow, downfall. Obs.
1617French Jubile 2 You display your greatnes, by the supplantation of a Tyrannie established in your State.
¶4. Illiterate or jocular for supplication.
1590R. Wilson Three Lords & Ladies Lond. H iij, Read my supplantation and my suit yee shall know. 1593Lodge W. Longbeard (Hunter. Club) 13 After the councell of some poore Cittizens, [the widow] put vppe a supplication or a supplantation (as the sillier sort of people called it). |