usurpingly
English edit
Etymology edit
Adverb edit
usurpingly (not comparable)
- (poetic, archaic) So as to usurp.
- 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
- The fever’d diadem on my brow
I claim’d and won usurpingly ——
Hath not the same fierce heirdom given
Rome to the Caesar — this to me?
References edit
- “usurpingly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.