substitutionary

English

Etymology

From substitution +‎ -ary.

Adjective

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.

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