usurpation
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English usurpacioun, from Old French usurpacion, from Latin ūsurpātiō.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
usurpation (countable and uncountable, plural usurpations)
- The wrongful seizure of something by force, especially of sovereignty or other authority.
- a. 1627 (date written), Francis Bacon, chapter VII, in James Spedding, editor, The Works of Francis Bacon, […]: The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon […], volume IV, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, published 1858, →OCLC, page 270:
- The third part of practice hath divers branches, but one principal root in these our times, which is the vast and overspreading ambition and usurpation of the see of Rome; […]
- 1685, John Dryden, Albion and Albanius, published 1691, Act I, scene i, page 10:
- Sent from the God's to ſet us free / From Bondage and from Uſurpation!
- Trespass onto another's property without permission.
- A taking or use without right.
Related terms edit
Translations edit
wrongful seizure
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Further reading edit
- “usurpation”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
usurpation f (plural usurpations)
- usurpation (wrongful seizure)
- that which is usurped
Further reading edit
- “usurpation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.