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Definition of "succedaneum" []

  • A substitute. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "succedaneum" in a sentence
  • "Scott renders “pepper” (Lane i. 8) and it forms a clean succedaneum for one of the uncleanest articles of civilisation, the sponge."
  • "“Líf,” a succedaneum for the unclean sponge, not unknown in the “Turkish Baths” of London."
  • "The order is peculiarly Moslem, in fact the succedaneum for the"
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