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▪ I. disˈplacing, vbl. n. [f. displace + -ing1.] The action of the verb displace; removal from its place; deposition.
1551T. Wilson Logike (1567) 65 a, In the diuidyng, and displacing of the same. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 84 Authoritie for his displacing, and placing of another that is more able. 1626in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1659) I. 403 More such displacings and alterations have by his means happened. 1654Ld. Orrery Parthen. (1676) 310 Phanasders displacing gave him the invitation to invade us. attrib.1894Westm. Gaz. 30 May 2/1 That displacing process which sounds so easy in political economy. In life, when you are squeezed out of one employment..you do not find it so simple to slide into another groove. ▪ II. disˈplacing, ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ing2.] That displaces: see the verb.
1862F. Hall Hindu Philos. Syst. 87 note, That one such quality may displace another, their theory is, that the displacing quality must remain with the quality displaced during the last moment of the subsistence of the latter. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) I. i. 2 Some knowledge of the condition of the displaced nation is necessary to understand the position of the displacing nation. |