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countable and uncountable, plural usurpations
The wrongful seizure of something by force, especially of sovereignty or other authority. quotations examples
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; […]
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, page 270
Trespass onto another's property without permission. examples
A taking or use without right. examples