All 4 Uses of
usurp
in
War and Peace
- Why, they are sending ambassadors to compliment the usurper.†
Chpt 1 *
- …but Anna Pavlovna, who had him under observation, interrupted: "The Emperor Alexander," said she, with the melancholy which always accompanied any reference of hers to the Imperial family, "has declared that he will leave it to the French people themselves to choose their own form of government; and I believe that once free from the usurper, the whole nation will certainly throw itself into the arms of its rightful king," she concluded, trying to be amiable to the royalist emigrant.†
Chpt 1
- He suggested addressing him as 'Usurper and Enemy of Mankind.'†
Chpt 3
- So that the greater part of the events of history—civil wars, revolutions, and conquests—are presented by these historians not as the results of free transferences of the people's will, but as results of the ill-directed will of one or more individuals, that is, once again, as usurpations of power.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(usurp) seize or take control without authority