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Definition
force to move; or to take the place of
- But the realities of his situation soon displaced conjecture on the other subject.5 — The Woman Pays (30% in)
- 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.5 — The Woman Pays (45% in)
- 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.6 — The Convert (3% in)
There are no more uses of "displace" in Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
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