All 3 Uses of
usurp
in
Twelfth Night
- If I do not usurp myself, I am.†
Scene 1.5
- you do usurp yourself, for what is yours to bestow is not yours to reserve.
Scene 1.5 *usurp = steal from (seize from)
- If nothing lets to make us happy both But this my masculine usurp'd attire, Do not embrace me till each circumstance Of place, time, fortune, do cohere, and jump That I am Viola: which to confirm, I'll bring you to a captain in this town, Where lie my maiden weeds; by whose gentle help I was preserv'd to serve this noble count; All the occurrence of my fortune since Hath been between this lady and this lord.†
Scene 5.1
Definition:
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(usurp) seize or take control without authority