Usurpation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for USURPATION in dictionary:

VERB:
• take the place of (someone in a position of power) illegally; supplant
• take (a position of power or importance) illegally or by force
• encroach or infringe upon (someone's rights)
NOUN:
• the act of usurping
• 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.
• Use; usage; custom.
• entry to another\'s property without right or permission
• wrongfully seizing and holding (an office or powers) by force (especially the seizure of a throne or supreme authority)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to seize and hold (as office, place, or powers) in possession by force or without right; to take or make use of without right

Words related to USURPATION

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Words that contain USURPATION

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How to use USURPATION in a sentence

• France, surprised, perplexed, affrighted, must needs carry on a war of despair, or succumb to the usurpation.
• But this fresh usurpation, although confirmed by a vote of the French people, was the signal for renewed hostilities.
• And if I succeed in pushing non-co-operation to the extreme limit, I do compel the Government to choose between India and the usurpation.
• A well-trained militia may be depended upon to fight with valor against a foreign foe, and may at the same time serve as a check upon usurpation.
• But the power of the Red Rose was founded in usurpation.
• He closed by drawing a strong picture of the evils sure to be brought about by such lawless secession, and usurpation of authority.
• Why talk about executive usurpation and influence over the members of Congress? I have always viewed this District influence as far more dangerous than that of any other power.
• To free a slave is to take from usurpation that which it has made property and given to another, and bestow it upon the rightful owner.
• Throughout London the consternation was great at the usurpation by the remnant of the Commons of all the rights of the Three Estates, and still more, at the trial of the king.
• By this bull all other princes were forbidden to encroach upon the conquests of the Portuguese, on pain of the censures incurred by the crime of usurpation.
• At an earlier period our protection was convenient to them against the usurpation, as they termed it, of the Dutch, of whose attempts and claims they were particularly jealous.
• But in the event of an usurpation, I was decidedly with those who were determined not to permit it.
• You apprehend that a single executive, with, eminence of talent, and destitution of principle, equal to the object, might, by usurpation, render his powers hereditary.
• There is an interruption, by the usurpation of Athaliah, therefore he is anointed.
• The indignation entertained by the people against an authority founded on such manifest usurpation, was not so violent as might naturally be expected.
• The project was interrupted and never completed, owing to the usurpation of Aurangzib, shortly after the foundations were laid.
• It is sinful in any human being to resign his or her conscience and free agency to any society or individual, if such usurpation can be resisted by moral power.
• The usurpation of power by police and justices has ceased.
• But I found myself placed in this most responsible station by no usurpation or contrivance of my own.
• The whole of their usurpation is established upon this method of arguing.
• The state of society in Tennessee and Alabama, observed on our retreat, calls for no special remarks, except as to its loyalty to the Confederate usurpation.
• The end of this dynasty was partly due to the usurpation of a Jain named Bijjala in whose reign the sect of the Lingayats arose.
• He was quick enough to yield obedience upon all occasions to proper authority, but would never bend an inch to the usurpation of tyranny.
• In 1801 he snatched from the rude hand of usurpation the violated Constitution of his country, and that is his crime.
• It is, therefore, merely according to reason that its partisans should uphold the Usurpation in Kansas.

Similar words containing USURPA without suffix tion

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