substitution
/sʌbstɪˈtjuːʃn
/noun [mass noun]
The action of replacing someone or something with another person or thing: the substitution of rail services with buses [count noun]: a tactical substitution...
- In an act of substitution he replaces barren dryness with his fertile fluidity.
- There is no other member of the club who can currently replace him, and that showed after his substitution.
- At the same time, he raises the issue of substitution and exchange in a social and economic sphere.
Synonyms
exchange, change, interchange;
replacement, replacing, swapping, switching;
swap, switch, trade-off, barter;
North American trade
Derivatives
substitutional
- For simplicity the interstitial elements carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, boron, and hydrogen will be referred to as contaminants, and the substitutional elements, intentionally added, will be referred to as alloying elements.
- This is in contrast to recently published reports in which good performance of reconstruction methods was recorded despite extensive substitutional saturation.
- Under the substitutional theory of artifact production, the forgeries of documents so common in the Middle Ages can be understood as the legitimate reproduction of accidentally misplaced facts.
substitutionary
- This is not a point that popular evangelical preaching makes well, which tends all too often to see a merely human Jesus being afflicted (in a substitutionary, transactional kind of way) with the total anger of God above.
- If He was there in my stead, as my representative, doing business for me, then, the agony that He endured in the substitutionary process is the agony that I must endure in hell, if I refuse to allow Him to substitute for me.
- It affirms the plenary inspiration and inerrancy of the Holy Scriptures, original sin, substitutionary atonement and justification by faith.