displantation

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ plantation.

Noun

displantation (countable and uncountable, plural displantations)

  1. (archaic) The act of displanting or uprooting; removal or displacement.
    • 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
      This dreadful precedent extremely displeased the Boii; who being neighbours to Ariminum, feared the like displantation

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