substitutionary
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From substitution + -ary.
Adjective
[edit]substitutionary (comparative more substitutionary, superlative most substitutionary)
- Of or relating to substitution or replacement.
- 1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 209:
- I did not perceive that his irony, his secret, and his parade of feeling, were all alike theatrical, and substitutionary for real interest and sincerity.