usurpation

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English

Etymology

From Middle English usurpacioun, from Old French usurpacion, from Latin ūsurpātiō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌjuːsə(ɹ)ˈpeɪʃən/, /ˌjuːzə(ɹ)ˈpeɪʃən/

Noun

usurpation (countable and uncountable, plural usurpations)

  1. The wrongful seizure of something by force, especially of sovereignty or other authority.
    • a. 1627 (date written), Francis Bacon, chapter VII, in James Spedding, editor, The Works of Francis Bacon, : The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon , volume IV, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, published 1858, →OCLC, page 270:
      The third part of practice hath divers branches, but one principal root in these our times, which is the vast and overspreading ambition and usurpation of the see of Rome; […]
    • 1685, John Dryden, Albion and Albanius, published 1691, Act I, scene i, page 10:
      Sent from the God's to ſet us free / From Bondage and from Uſurpation!
  2. Trespass onto another's property without permission.
  3. A taking or use without right.

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /y.zyʁ.pa.sjɔ̃/
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Noun

usurpation f (plural usurpations)

  1. usurpation (wrongful seizure)
  2. that which is usurped

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