What does usurpation mean?

Definitions for usurpation
ˌyu sərˈpeɪ ʃən, -zər-usurpa·tion

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. trespass, encroachment, violation, intrusion, usurpationnoun

    entry to another's property without right or permission

  2. usurpationnoun

    wrongfully seizing and holding (an office or powers) by force (especially the seizure of a throne or supreme authority)

    "a succession of generals who ruled by usurpation"

Wiktionary

  1. usurpationnoun

    The wrongful seizure of something by force, especially of sovereignty or other authority.

  2. usurpationnoun

    Trespass onto another's property without permission.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Usurpation

    Forcible, unjust, illegal seizure or possession.

    Etymology: usurpation, Fr. from usurp.

    The Piercies,
    Finding his usurpation most unjust,
    Endeavour’d my advancement to the throne. William Shakespeare.

    Succeeding kings recovery of their right from unjust usurpations, shall never be prejudiced by any act of mine. Charles I .

    To raise a tempest on the sea was usurpation on the prerogative of Neptune, who had given him no leave. Dryden.

    O baseness to support a tyrant throne,
    And crush your freeborn brethren of the world!
    Nay, to become a part of usurpation,
    T’ espouse the tyrant’s person and her crimes. Dryden.

    Whatever opposition was made to the usurpations of K. James, proceeded altogether from the church of England. Jonathan Swift.

Wikipedia

  1. usurpation

    A usurper is an illegitimate or controversial claimant to power, often but not always in a monarchy. In other words, one who takes the power of a country, city, or established region for oneself, without any formal or legal right to claim it as one's own. Usurpers can rise to power in a region by often unexpected physical force, as well as through political influence and deceit.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Usurpationnoun

    the act of usurping, or of seizing and enjoying; an authorized, arbitrary assumption and exercise of power, especially an infringing on the rights of others; specifically, the illegal seizure of sovereign power; -- commonly used with of, also used with on or upon; as, the usurpation of a throne; the usurpation of the supreme power

  2. Usurpationnoun

    use; usage; custom

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of usurpation in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of usurpation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of usurpation in a Sentence

  1. Francisco Marquez:

    We're willing to, at this moment, negotiate at an exit, for Maduro and regime officials, it will always be our job as an administration and a challenge to balance both the justice and the need for a transition right now. And that's a challenge, I have to be very upfront about that. But what's our priority right now ? To see the usurpation of power.

  2. Juan Guaido:

    We are going to achieve the end of the usurpation very soon in Venezuela.

  3. Juan Guaido:

    This is the first step toward ending usurpation.

  4. United States:

    We've come here to present a very clear agenda internationally, we want to end the usurpation of power of Nicolas Maduro, set a transitional government and call for free and transparent elections as soon as possible.

  5. Antonin Artaud:

    There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.

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