All 4 Uses
usurp
in
Wuthering Heights
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- So, from the very beginning, he bred bad feeling in the house; and at Mrs. Earnshaw's death, which happened in less than two years after, the young master had learned to regard his father as an oppressor rather than a friend, and Heathcliff as a usurper of his parent's affections and his privileges; and he grew bitter with brooding over these injuries.†
p. 26.9usurper = one who seizes or takes control without authority
- I dared hardly lift my eyes from the page before me, that melancholy scene so instantly usurped its place.†
p. 127.1 *usurped = seized or took control without authority
- And as he had been in the habit of accusing Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, when children, of putting the master past his patience, and compelling him to seek solace in drink by what he termed their 'offald ways,' so at present he laid the whole burden of Hareton's faults on the shoulders of the usurper of his property.†
p. 143.6usurper = one who seizes or takes control without authority
- Her day was divided between us; no amusement usurped a minute: she neglected her meals, her studies, and her play; and she was the fondest nurse that ever watched.†
p. 177.6usurped = seized or took control without authority
Definitions:
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(1)
(usurp) seize or take control without authority
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)