succedaneum
noun
a substitute.
succedanea
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pluralof succedaneum.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Much spare room is enclosed by the town walls: evaporation and Nature's scavengers act succedanea for sewerage.
From First Footsteps in East Africa by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Are any medicines to be given as succedanea to the specific remedy for the purpose of rendering its action more sure or prompt?
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Justice, Justice, in the name of Heaven; give us Justice, and we live; give us only counterfeits of it, or succedanea for it, and we die!
From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle
The "two economies which are the best succedanea" for deficiency of temperament are concentration and drill.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes
