All 3 Uses of
displace
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- But the realities of his situation soon displaced conjecture on the other subject.†
Chpt 5 *displaced = forced to move
- But even the novelty and painfulness of his going to a Papistical land could not displace for long Mr and Mrs Clare's natural interest in their son's marriage.†
Chpt 5
- That hunger for affection too long withheld was for the time displaced by an almost physical sense of an implacable past which still engirdled her.†
Chpt 6displaced = forced to move
Definition:
force to move; or to take the place of