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Supplanter   Listen
noun
Supplanter  n.  One who supplants.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Supplanter" Quotes from Famous Books



... now, for the first time in twenty-three years, failed to include herself. Now she was an outsider, for her child's heart and life alike had passed from her keeping: It is a bitter moment for all mothers; doubly bitter when, as to Mrs Ramsden, the supplanter seems ...
— Flaming June • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... this answer was an evasion. By forcing the tie they had merely marked the want of ease and confidence between them. As "Packer John" Paul could have enjoyed, nay, loved this man; as his father, the sum and finality of his filial dreams, the supplanter of that imaginary husband of his mother's youth, the thing was impossible. And the father knew it and did not resent it in the least, only pitied the boy for his needless struggle. He was curious about ...
— The Desert and The Sown • Mary Hallock Foote



Words linked to "Supplanter" :   supplant, usurper



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