Supplant vs Demean - What's the difference?
supplant | demean |
To take the place of; to replace, to supersede.
(obsolete) To uproot, to remove violently.
* 1610 , , act 3 scene 2
To debase; to lower; to degrade.
* Thackeray
To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate.
To mortify.
To manage; to conduct; to treat.
* Milton
To conduct; to behave; to comport; followed by the reflexive pronoun.
* Shakespeare
* Clarendon
(archaic) Management; treatment.
* Spenser
(archaic) Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.5:
*:‘When thou hast all this doen, then bring me newes / Of his demeane […].’
* West
As verbs the difference between supplant and demean
is that supplant is to take the place of; to replace, to supersede while demean is to debase; to lower; to degrade or demean can be to manage; to conduct; to treat.As a noun demean is
(archaic) management; treatment or demean can be demesne.supplant
English
Alternative forms
* supplaunt (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- Will online dictionaries ever supplant paper dictionaries?
- Trinculo, if you trouble him any more in's tale, by this hand, I will supplant some of your teeth.
Synonyms
* (replace) dethrone, oust, replace, supersede, take over from * (remove violently) uproot, wrench outdemean
English
Etymology 1
(1595) From . Compare English (m).Verb
(en verb)- Her son would demean himself by a marriage with an artist's daughter.
Synonyms
* debase * lower * degradeEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- [Our] clergy have with violence demeaned the matter.
- They have demeaned themselves / Like men born to renown by life or death.
- They answered that they should demean themselves according to their instructions.
Noun
- vile demean and usage bad
- with grave demean and solemn vanity