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c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) xl. 10 Hij þat eten min loues, herieden vp me supplauntynge oþer puttyng out [L. supplantationem].

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. xi. 3 Supplaunting [L. supplantatio] of peruertid men shal waste them.

a1500 (?c1440) J. Lydgate Horse, Goose & Sheep (Lansd.) l. 604 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 564 Fals supplantyng clymbyng vp of foolis, Vnto chaires of wordly dygnyte.

1543 in W. Fraser Douglas Bk. (1885) IV. 152 To the evident supplanting and undermynding of this cunitrey and faithfull subgettis thairof.

1591 T. Lodge Catharos (Hunterian Club) 4 Diogenes wisheth infinite good speede to your good proceedinges, and curseth endleslie your ill demeanors: wishing the last to perish without supposing, the first to flourish without supplanting.

1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island xii. lv. 172 For to this end th' Almighty did him frame, And therefore from supplanting gave his ominous name.

1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xvi. 194 Such a place will thrive the better..when new Colonies come not in with Extirpation of the Natives; for this is rather a Supplanting then a Planting.

a1677 I. Barrow Several Serm. Evil-speaking (1678) viii. 53 Rather backbiting, whispering, supplanting, or sycophantry, then fair and lawful judging.

1706 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels III. 511 We should be guilty of no Emulation, no Supplanting, no Injury to any other.

1718 J. Hoadly Sermon 20 Those Divisions and Supplantings that were among the King's own Friends.

1795 J. Milner Hist. Church of Christ II. iv. iv. 87 The time also of bishops remaining in another Diocese was fixed, in order to prevent the supplanting of their brethren.

1837 T. Moore Hist. Ireland I. xx. 328 In the year 988, whether in revenge for some aggression, or moved by the one sole aim and object of his career, the supplanting of the power of the monarchy, we find Brian actively preparing..for the invasion at once of the two provinces, Meath and Connaught.

1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxiii. 29 Such supplanting was to be.

1930 M. E. M. Walker Pioneers of Public Health 111 He [sc. Sir John Simon] was obliged to witness the blunders of the civil officers, acting without his advice in the formation of sanitary areas..and the supplanting of his able staff by poor law officers.

1983 G. Zivin in D. W. Rajecki Comparing Behavior vii. 185 The computation of a dominance hierarchy is done by placing the observed, relevant behaviors—whether pecks, permitted access to food, supplantings, outcomes of fights, or gestures—in a dominance matrix.

2007 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 101 42 The majority of the Court found that this Act did not authorize the supplanting of civilian by military tribunals.