usurpingly

English

Etymology

From usurping +‎ -ly.

Adverb

usurpingly (not comparable)

1. (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

• “usurpingly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• pursuingly