"substitute by" = "replace with"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Here's a Ph.D.-level ex. of this usage :

  1982 Allan Rodway _The Craft of Criticism_ (Cambridge: C.U.P.) 70 : But the revision seems to substitute one kind of flaw by another.

  OED uncharacteristically goes out of its way to call a related construction "incorrect," not once but twice (_substitute_, v., 4a, 4b).  But none of its exx. are quite as odd as the above.

  BTW, Prof. Rodway's book provides a splendid explication of pre-deconstructive literary criticism.

  JL



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