usurpation
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He even borrowed seven lines of her story "Usurpation" for his novella "Westward the Course of Empire."
From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2012
Usurpation is a crime to which men are tempted by human dirigibility.
From The Research Magnificent by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
And on my Knee do humbly offer up This splendid powerful thing, and ease your Fears Of Usurpation and of Tyranny.
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Summers, Montague
Despotism and Usurpation are fallen, never, I hope, to rise again.
From Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Morse, Samuel F. B. (Samuel Finley Breese)
And, Secondly, That Denmark might not be the Scene of Usurpation and Incest, and the Throne thus polluted and profaned.
From Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Written by Mr. William Shakespeare (1736) by Anonymous
Vocabulary lists containing usurpation
The Declaration of Independence
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Grade 11, List 3
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"The Declaration of Independence," Vocabulary from the historical document
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