All 3 Uses of
usurp
in
The Declaration of Independence
- But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.†
- The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations...
*usurpations = the act of seizing or taking control without authority
- We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence.†
Definition:
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(usurp) seize or take control without authority