Sample Sentences for
usurp
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    I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.  (source)
    usurpations = acts of seizing control without authority
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    For the last time in his life he allowed passion to usurp cunning and reason, and it was because of his great love for John Thornton that he lost his head.  (source)
    usurp = seize or take control
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    If you will not banish the usurping nag, so be it.  (source)
    usurping = seizing or taking control without authority
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    Everyone except your Majesty knows that Miraz is a usurper.  (source)
    usurper = someone who takes without authority
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    She led the Viceroy a horrible life with her passion for concessions and her gradual usurpation of privileges.  (source)
    usurpation = the act of seizing or taking control without authority
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Now, a god cannot usurp another god's symbol of power directly-  (source)
    usurp = seize or take control of
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    usurped by his uncle  (source)
    usurped = seized control without authority
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    The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations...  (source)
    usurpations = the act of seizing or taking control without authority
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    And we weren't even usurping, just trying to stop another bloody tribal upheaval and another regime change from the elected to the dictators.  (source)
    usurping = seizing or taking control without authority
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    All three usurpers had lost and been exiled to the desert.†  (source)
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    I cannot live a slave, or see my throne Usurp'd by strangers or a Trojan son.†  (source)
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    Philosophic controversy usurps a good part of the novel.†  (source)
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    It is true, the Pope in taking upon him to give Laws to all Christian Kings, and Nations, usurpeth a Kingdome in this world, which Christ took not on him: but he doth it not As Christ, but as For Christ, wherein there is nothing of the Antichrist.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She usurpeth" in older English, today we say "She usurps."
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