Both Uses of
displace
in
Jane Eyre
- Again I looked at the face; which was no longer turned from me —on the contrary, the bonnet was doffed, the bandage displaced, the head advanced.†
p. 234.3 *displaced = forced to move
- It was enough that in yonder closet, opposite my dressing-table, garments said to be hers had already displaced my black stuff Lowood frock and straw bonnet: for not to me appertained that suit of wedding raiment; the pearl-coloured robe, the vapoury veil pendent from the usurped portmanteau.†
p. 317.6
Definition:
force to move; or to take the place of