Both Uses of
supplant
in
David Copperfield
- And here, in the very first stage, I was supplanted by a shabby man with a squint, who had no other merit than smelling like a livery-stables, and being able to walk across me, more like a fly than a human being, while the horses were at a canter!†
Chpt 19-21 *
- But you were so much better than I, so necessary to me in every boyish hope and disappointment, that to have you to confide in, and rely upon in everything, became a second nature, supplanting for the time the first and greater one of loving you as I do!'†
Chpt 61-62
Definition:
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(supplant) take the place or move into the position of