All 6 Uses
usurp
in
Ivanhoe
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- His brother sits in the seat, and usurps the patrimony, of a better race, the race of Ulfgar of Middleham; but what Norman lord doth not the same?†
Chpt 3usurps = seizes or takes control without authority
- This usurpation, it is well known, he afterwards effected.†
Chpt 7 *usurpation = the act of seizing or taking control without authority
- Yet how should this be, while Rowena, Athelstane, and I myself, remain the prisoners of this brutal marauder and have been made so perhaps from a sense of the dangers which our liberty might bring to the usurped power of his nation?†
Chpt 21usurped = seized or took control without authority
- "I will appeal to Rome against thee," said the Grand Master, "for usurpation on the immunities and privileges of our Order."†
Chpt 44usurpation = the act of seizing or taking control without authority
- "Be it so," said the King; "but for thine own sake tax me not with usurpation now.†
Chpt 44
- They now filled the air with "Long life to Richard with the Lion's Heart, and down with the usurping Templars!"†
Chpt 44usurping = seizing or taking control without authority
Definitions:
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(1)
(usurp) seize or take control without authority
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)