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  • n  one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another

  • Hergesheimer appears in the paper covers of Tauchnitz or his supplanter, beloved of globe-trottersThree Soldiers is seen Teutonified to Drei SoldatenTheodore Dreiser's .
  • Behind, at the old Sheldonian, a leering-visaged ghost lurked, perhaps, the ghost of Benjamin Disraeli, near-supplanter of "Dear Albert" in Victoria's affections.
  • The name Jacob means supplanter.

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