Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who supplants or displaces.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who supplants.

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  • noun Someone or something that supplants.

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  • noun one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another

Etymologies

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to supplant + -er.

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Examples

  • That the barbed shaft might sink deep and rankle from Andrea's belief that her supplanter was a girl of her tribe, but principally because, just then, she went down under the ruins of her own _olla_.

    The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various

  • But the supplanter was the upstart (as Henchard called him) who had mounted into prominence upon his shoulders, and he could bring himself to show no mercy.

    The Mayor of Casterbridge 1887

  • But the supplanter was the upstart (as Henchard called him) who had mounted into prominence upon his shoulders, and he could bring himself to show no mercy.

    The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1884

  • And Esau said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob — that is, a supplanter — for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright, and behold now he hath taken away my blessing.”

    Ancient States and Empires John Lord 1852

  • There is always a 'supplanter' -- when the time is ripe. "

    The Testing of Diana Mallory Humphry Ward 1885

  • And when Major, in 1530, republished his Commentary, he not only omitted from it his Disputations against Papal absolutism, but dedicated it to Archbishop James Beaton as the 'supplanter' and

    John Knox A. Taylor Innes

  • (Ge 25: 22-26), whence he took his name, Jacob, meaning "supplanter"; and again, by his strength, prevailed in wrestling with God for a blessing (Ge 32: 24-29); whereas ye disregard My promises, putting your confidence in idols and foreign alliances.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • -- means "supplanter", and refers to a well-known circumstance of his birth (Gen., xxv, 25).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • "supplanter," and though he was on the right side, as no one who knew him well would deny or even doubt, yet if one had wished to tell his character in two words, it would not have been as "a soldier of God" that one would have described him.

    Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not 1859

  • Why, the BBC Trust, more systemically censorious supplanter of the old board of governors – which nevertheless retains the right to criticise or even fire the man they hired.

    Big Brother may be off-air but he has got his beady eyes on BBC trustees 2010

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  • According to the Is This Your Name? website, my forename (technically my middle name) means supplanter, and has it's origin in Hebrew.

    April 1, 2009

  • James comes from Jacob, who in the Bible (Genesis, ch. 27) supplanted his older twin brother Esau (it's a great story!).

    April 1, 2009