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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    Now, a god cannot usurp another god's symbol of power directly-  (source)
    usurp = seize or take control of
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    So how are you going to usurp Erudite?  (source)
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    She almost apologized to the tenants the first time she collected the rents. Felt like a usurper.  (source)
    usurper = one who seizes or takes control without authority
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    William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much accustomed to usurpation and conquest.  (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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    His wife had tried to usurp him, first by fair (sort of) means, then by foul.  (source)
    usurp = take control from
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    Draco blames me, he thinks I have usurped Lucius's position.  (source)
    usurped = seized or taken 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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    Tom's words laid bare the hearts of trees and their thoughts, which were often dark and strange, and filled with a hatred of things that go free upon the earth, gnawing, biting, breaking, hacking, burning: destroyers and usurpers.†  (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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