vbl. sb. [f. SUPPLANT v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb SUPPLANT in various senses; supplantation.
a. 1325. Prose Psalter, xl. 10 [xli. 9]. Hij þat eten min loues, herieden vp me supplauntynge oþer puttyng out.
1382. Wyclif, Prov. xi. 3. Supplaunting of peruertid men shal waste them.
c. 1440. Lydg., Hors, Shepe & Goos, 604, in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems, 40. Fals supplantyng, clymbyng vp of foolis, Vnto chaires of wordly dygnyte.
1633. P. Fletcher, Purple Isl., XII. lv. For to this end th’ Almighty did him frame, And therefore from supplanting gave his ominous name.
1642. Fuller, 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.
1706. Stanhope, Paraphr., III. 511. We should be guilty of no Emulation, no Supplanting, no Injury to any other.
1717–8. Hoadly, Serm. 1 Cor. x. 11, 20. Those Divisions and Supplantings that were among the King’s own Friends.
1891. T. Hardy, Tess, xxiii. Such supplanting was to be.
