| 释义 |
supplanting, vbl. n.|səˈplɑːntɪŋ, -æ-|
[f. supplant v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb supplant in various senses; supplantation.
a1325Prose Psalter xl. 10 [xli. 9] Hij þat eten min loues, herieden vp me supplauntynge oþer puttyng out. 1382Wyclif Prov. xi. 3 Supplaunting of peruertid men shal waste them. c1440Lydg. Hors, Shepe & Goos 604 in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems 40 Fals supplantyng, clymbyng vp of foolis, Vnto chaires of wordly dygnyte. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. xii. lv, For to this end th' Almighty did him frame, And therefore from supplanting gave his ominous name. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iii. xvi. 194 Such a place will thrive the better..when new Colonies come not in with Extirpation of the Natives; for this is rather a Supplanting then a Planting. 1706Stanhope Paraphr. III. 511 We should be guilty of no Emulation, no Supplanting, no Injury to any other. 1717–18Hoadly Serm. 1 Cor. x. 11. 20 Those Divisions and Supplantings that were among the King's own Friends. 1891Hardy Tess xxiii, Such supplanting was to be. |