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/Selectman/ is first heard of in 1685, displacing the English /alderman/.†
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/Mush/ had displaced /porridge/ by 1671.†

displaced = forced to move
In English it meant (and still means) a topless article of foot-wear, but the colonists extended its meaning to varieties covering the ankle, thus displacing the English /boot/, which they reserved for foot coverings reaching at least to the knee.†
Meanwhile /store/ completely displaced /shop/ in the English sense, and it remained for a late flowering of Anglomania, as in the case of /boot/ and /shoe/, to restore, in a measure, the /status quo ante/.†

displaced = forced to move
/Tavern/ displaced /inn/ at the same time.†
[29] He avoids displacing terms of a disparaging or disagreeable significance with others less brutal, or thought to be less brutal, /e†
The French /crèche/ offers an example; it has been entirely displaced by /day-nursery/.†

displaced = forced to move
In the same way /fenster/ has been completely displaced by /window/, though /tür/ (=/door/) has been left intact.†
Now and then the spirit of American shows a transient faltering, and its inventiveness is displaced by a banal extension of meaning, so that a single noun comes to signify discrete things.†
Curiously enough, it is displaced in /patent/ by the true flat /a/.†
It has been displaced in virtually all of these, even in the most remote reaches of the back country, [Pg174] by the national flat /a/.†
So also, perhaps, in /swole/, which is fast displacing /swelled/.†
Here it promises to displace /must/.†
/Will/ has displaced /shall/ completely, save in the imperative.†

displaced = forced to move
As for /should/, it is displaced by /ought to/ (degenerated to /oughter/ or /ought'a/), and in its negative form by /hadn't ought'a/, as in "he /hadn't oughter/ said that," reported by Charters.†
/Don't/ has also completely displaced /doesn't/, which is very seldom heard.†
In the same way /ain't/ has displaced /is not/, /am not/, /isn't/ and /aren't/, and even /have not/ and /haven't/.†
Here one of our few surviving inflections was displaced by an analytical devise, and yet the man's meaning was quite clear, and it would be absurd to say that his sentence violated the inner spirit of English.†
In Anglo-Saxon the word was /heora/, and down to Chaucer's day a modified form of it, /here/, was still used in the possessive plural in place of the modern /their/, though /they/ had already displaced /hie/ in the nominative.†
Without question this retention of the /n/ in these pronouns had something to do with the appearance of the /n/-declension in the treatment of /your/, /her/, /his/ and /our/, and, after /their/ had displaced /here/ in the third person plural, in /their/.†
But in England, during the pedantic eighteenth century, this /i/-sound was displaced by the original /oi/-sound, not by historical research but by mere deduction from the spelling, and the new pronunciation soon extended to the polite speech of America.†
But /kittle/ for /kettle/ still shows a certain vitality, /rench/ is still used in place of /rinse/, and /squinch/ in place of /squint/, and a flat /a/ continues to displace various /e/-sounds in such words as /rare/ for /rear/ (/e.†
Contrariwise, /e/ displaces /a/ in /catch/ and /radish/, which are commonly pronounced /ketch/ and /reddish/.†

displaces = forces to move
Some are displaced by other consonants, measurably more facile; others are dropped altogether.†

displaced = forced to move
[78] /At all/, by the way, is often displaced by /any/ or /none/, as in "he don't lover her /any/" and "it didn't hurt me /none/.†
/Segar/ has been more or less in use for half a century, and at one time it threatened to displace /cigar/.†
In the same way the present name of the /White Mountains/ displaced /Agiochook/, and /New Amsterdam/, and later /New York/, displaced /Manhattan/, which has been recently revived.†

displaced = forced to move
In the same way the present name of the /White Mountains/ displaced /Agiochook/, and /New Amsterdam/, and later /New York/, displaced /Manhattan/, which has been recently revived.†
Not only do the present lords of the soil debase them in speaking them; in many cases they are formally displaced by native names of the utmost harshness and banality.†
But the Americans who displaced them were intimately familiar with both books of the Bible, and one finds copious proofs of it on the map of the United States.†

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(1) (displace)
force to move; or to take the place of
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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