Usurper
[jʊ'zɝpɚ]
Definition
(noun.) one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another.
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Definition
(n.) One who usurps; especially, one who seizes illegally on sovereign power; as, the usurper of a throne, of power, or of the rights of a patron.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are a usurper, foretells you will have trouble in establishing a good title to property. If others are trying to usurp your rights, there will be a struggle between you and your competitors, but you will eventually win. For a young woman to have this dream, she will be a party to a spicy rivalry, in which she will win.
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Examples
- I defy the foreign usurper! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Austria turned against him (1813); all Europe was eager to rise against this defaulting trustee of freedom, this mere usurper. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Because, without having known them, you never can fully know what it is to be stimilated to frenzy by the sight of the Usurper. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I chiefly fed mine eyes with beholding the destroyers of tyrants and usurpers, and the restorers of liberty to oppressed and injured nations. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Usurpers, rebellious generals, and false prophets seemed to have vanished from the Moslem dominions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They are not to be thought of as cheats or usurpers of power, nor the rest of mankind as their dupes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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