| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| usurpation |
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| SYLLABICATION: | u·sur·pa·tion |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  y  s r-p  shn, -zr- |
| NOUN: | 1. The act of usurping, especially the wrongful seizure of royal sovereignty. 2. A wrongful seizure or exercise of authority or privilege belonging to another; an encroachment: “in our own day, gross usurpations upon the liberty of private life” (John Stuart Mill).
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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