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Displace vs Unplace - What's the difference?

displace | unplace |

As verbs the difference between displace and unplace

is that displace is to move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland while unplace is to remove from one's place; displace.

As a noun unplace is

lack or absence of place; placelessness; displacement.

displace

English

Verb

(displac)
  • To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
  • To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
  • (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.

    • Derived terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l)

    unplace

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (lb) To remove from one's place; displace.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Lack or absence of place; placelessness; displacement.
  • *2014 , Bonnie Wheeler, Medieval Mothering - Page 164 :
    • More fundamental even than the paradox of dying to live is the paradox of being enclosed in a narrow place to gain access to the limitless unplace which is Heaven: my cell is so narrow,' you may say, but oh, how wide is the sky!