All 3 Uses
usurp
in
Declaration of Sentiments
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- 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 duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.†
usurpations = acts of seizing or taking control without authority
- The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her.†
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- He has usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself, claiming it as his right to assign for her a sphere of action, when that belongs to her conscience and to her God.†
usurped = 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)