All 3 Uses
usurp
in
Washington's Farewell Address
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- However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.†
usurp = seize or take control without authority
- But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.†
*usurpation = the act of seizing or taking control without authority
- Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests.†
usurp = seize or take control without authority
Definitions:
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(1)
(usurp) seize or take control without authority
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)