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Supplanting   /səplˈæntɪŋ/   Listen
Supplanting

noun
1.
Act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics.  Synonym: displacement.



Supplant

verb
(past & past part. supplanted; pres. part. supplanting)
1.
Take the place or move into the position of.  Synonyms: replace, supercede, supersede, supervene upon.  "The computer has supplanted the slide rule" , "Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school"



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"Supplanting" Quotes from Famous Books



... should we? Neither Puritan nor Cavalier long survive as such. The virtues and traditions of both happily still live for the inspiration of their sons and the saving of the old fashion. But both Puritan and Cavalier were lost in the storm of the first Revolution; and the American citizen, supplanting both and stronger than either, took possession of the Republic bought by their common blood and fashioned to wisdom, and charged himself with teaching men government and establishing the voice of the people as ...
— Public Speaking • Irvah Lester Winter

... pink-flowered one called Madame Kruse. In Australia the warm climate makes these all evergreens, and they are trained over fences and walls, sometimes to the height of twenty or thirty feet, supplanting the English ivy in this use, and covered with ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris

... cit.); it oscillates between religionized science and scientificized religion. The apocalyptic enthusiasm changed little by little into neo-platonic mysticism, which theology thrust further into the background. It feared the excesses of the imagination which was supplanting faith and creating gnostic extravagances. But it had to sign a kind of pact with gnosticism and another with rationalism; neither imagination nor reason allowed itself to be completely vanquished. And ...
— Tragic Sense Of Life • Miguel de Unamuno

... census strengthen the belief that the World War has accomplished one of two things: It has either hastened the process of opening up larger fields or it has prevented a serious economic situation which doubtless would have followed the complete supplanting of negroes by foreigners in practically ...
— Negro Migration during the War • Emmett J. Scott

... (shaped or formed) this heaven and this earth." These radical changes necessitating others, they made two distinct and independent beings of the principles of Good and Evil personified in the God Sol; the former they embodied in Jesus the Christ and the latter in the Christian Devil, thus supplanting old Pluto; the presiding genius ...
— Astral Worship • J. H. Hill


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