supplanter
IPA: sʌpɫˈæntɝ
noun
- Someone or something that supplants.
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Examples of "supplanter" in Sentences
- There is always a 'supplanter' -- when the time is ripe. "
- -- means "supplanter", and refers to a well-known circumstance of his birth (Gen., xxv, 25).
- But the supplanter was the upstart (as Henchard called him) who had mounted into prominence upon his shoulders, and he could bring himself to show no mercy.
- Why, the BBC Trust, more systemically censorious supplanter of the old board of governors – which nevertheless retains the right to criticise or even fire the man they hired.
- And Esau said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob — that is, a supplanter — for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright, and behold now he hath taken away my blessing.”
- And when Major, in 1530, republished his Commentary, he not only omitted from it his Disputations against Papal absolutism, but dedicated it to Archbishop James Beaton as the 'supplanter' and
- That the barbed shaft might sink deep and rankle from Andrea's belief that her supplanter was a girl of her tribe, but principally because, just then, she went down under the ruins of her own _olla_.
- "supplanter," and though he was on the right side, as no one who knew him well would deny or even doubt, yet if one had wished to tell his character in two words, it would not have been as "a soldier of God" that one would have described him.
- (Ge 25: 22-26), whence he took his name, Jacob, meaning "supplanter"; and again, by his strength, prevailed in wrestling with God for a blessing (Ge 32: 24-29); whereas ye disregard My promises, putting your confidence in idols and foreign alliances.