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Definition of Supplanted
1. supplant [v] - See also: supplant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Supplanted
Literary usage of Supplanted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... supplanted hand composition. It is by such inventions, however, that the
printing trade has been revolutionized until it has grown from the small ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... which was transposed in English to eorl, and was applied to the officials who
presided over the counties and who supplanted the old Saxon ealdorman. ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... attributed to him, continued to be used and consulted in manuscript for nearly
a century until it was supplanted by the 'Institutes of Lord Stair. ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... the minds of Englishmen writing Is the English tongue, supplanted the history
of their own people. Towards the end of the century our language wai put ..."
5. The Historical Geography of Europe by Edward Augustus Freeman (1903)
"This and other instances in which one Greek name has been supplanted by another
are witnesses of the Slavonic occupation of Hellas and its recovery by a ..."
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