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Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure.
Terry Eagleton

Meaning of "usurpation" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF USURPATION

usurpation  [ˌjuːzɜːˈpeɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF USURPATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Usurpation is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES USURPATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Usurper

A usurper is an illegitimate or controversial claimant to power, often but not always in a monarchy. This may include a person who succeeds in establishing himself as a monarch without inheriting the throne or any other person exercising authority unconstitutionally. It may also be applied to an official acting ultra vires, outside his authority or jurisdiction.

Definition of usurpation in the English dictionary

The definition of usurpation in the dictionary is the act or an instance of usurping something.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH USURPATION


anticipation
ænˌtɪsɪˈpeɪʃən
apocopation
əˌpɒkəˈpeɪʃən
constipation
ˌkɒnstɪˈpeɪʃən
dissipation
ˌdɪsɪˈpeɪʃən
emancipation
ɪˌmænsɪˈpeɪʃən
exculpation
ˌɛkskʒlˈpeɪʃən
extirpation
ˌekstəˈpeɪʃən
forcipation
ˌfɔːsɪˈpeɪʃən
inculpation
ˌɪnkʌlˈpeɪʃən
inoccupation
ɪnˌɒkjʊˈpeɪʃən
mancipation
ˌmænsɪˈpeɪʃən
obstipation
ˌɒbstɪˈpeɪʃən
occupation
ˌɒkjʊˈpeɪʃən
owner-occupation
ˌəʊnəʳˌɒkjʊˈpeɪʃən
palpation
pælˈpeɪʃən
participation
pɑːˌtɪsɪˈpeɪʃən
preoccupation
priːˌɒkjʊˈpeɪʃən
pupation
pjuːˈpeɪʃən
reoccupation
ˌriːɒkjʊˈpeɪʃən
syncopation
ˌsɪŋkəˈpeɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE USURPATION

usufruct
usufructuary
Usumbura
usure
usurer
usuress
usuries
usurious
usuriously
usuriousness
usurous
usurp
usurpative
usurpatory
usurpature
usurpedly
usurper
usurping
usurpingly
usury

WORDS THAT END LIKE USURPATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
application
association
certification
citation
combination
communication
confirmation
conversation
corporation
creation
decoration
destination
documentation
duration
education
evaluation
excitation

Synonyms and antonyms of usurpation in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «usurpation» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF USURPATION

Find out the translation of usurpation to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of usurpation from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «usurpation» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

侵占
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

usurpación
570 millions of speakers

English

usurpation
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अपहरण
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اغتصاب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

узурпация
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

usurpação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দখলের
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

usurpation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Perampasan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Usurpation
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

簒奪
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

강탈
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Usurpation
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

soán ngôi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உள்ளே நுழைத்தது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Usurpation
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gasp
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

usurpazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

uzurpacji
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

узурпація
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

uzurpare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σφετερισμού
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

oorname
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

usurpation
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tilraning
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of usurpation

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «USURPATION»

The term «usurpation» is regularly used and occupies the 77.444 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «USURPATION» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about usurpation

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7 QUOTES WITH «USURPATION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word usurpation.
1
Denis Diderot
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
2
Terry Eagleton
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure.
3
William Godwin
Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.
4
Andrew Jackson
The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
5
Henry James Sumner Maine
Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.
6
Joshua A. Norton
The Supreme Court of the United States is hereby commanded to try Andrew Johnson for usurpation of our Imperial authority and prerogatives, and if found guilty, behead him or send him here to black the Emperor's boots.
7
John Edward Redmond
Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «USURPATION»

Discover the use of usurpation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to usurpation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Federal Usurpation
Kings have ever been the bugaboo of our American people; but the President of the United States to-day, in the legitimate exercise of his authority, exercises a greater power than any constitutional sovereign on the face of the earth, his ...
Franklin Pierce, 2010
2
England's Empty Throne: Usurpation and the Language of ...
Strohm uses both literary and historical analysis to explore this quest for legitimacy, and the importance of symbolic activity to Henry IV and V.
Paul Strohm, 1998
3
The Second Usurpation of Buonaparte; Or a History of the ...
boldness, patriotism, and independence of which entitle it to a place in this work. The chamber of representatives which existed under the second usurpation of Buonaparte has been stigmatized as composed entirely of factious characters, and ...
Edmund Boyce, 1816
4
Exposition of the practices and machinations which led to ...
EXPOSITION OF TBI PRACTICES AND MACHINATIONS WHICH LED TO THE USURPATION OF THE CROWN OF SPAIN, AND THE MEANS ADOPTED BY THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH TO CARRY IT INTO EXECUTION. Bt DON ...
Pedro Cevallos, 1808
5
Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: The Usurpation of Jesus and the ...
Those persons supporting Paul soon developed a strategy to accomplish that feat. Belittling the Disciples was one approach to the problem, it appears. This is especially true of Peter in some of Paul's Galatians passages.
F. F. Powell, 2009
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Locke: Political Writings:
Chapter. Seventeen: Of. Usurpation. 197. As conquest may be called a foreign usurpation, so usurpation is a kind of domestic conquest, with this difference, that an usurper can never have ...
John Locke, David Wootton, 1993
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John Locke's Liberalism
But the simple correspondence between usurpation and breaches of consent and the fundamental positive law, on the one hand, and tyranny and breeches of preservation and the fundamental natural law, on the other, is too simple. First ...
Ruth W. Grant, 2010
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Executive Usurpation: Speech of Honorable James A. Bayard of ...
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series.
James Asheton Bayard, 2010
9
Studies in Classical History and Society
Usurpation. of. Status. and. Status. Symbols. in. the. Roman. Empire. A HE BASIC ORGANIZATIONAL PRINCIPLE OF THE SOCIAL SYSTEMS of the ancient world was hierarchic structure, but social mobility existed in varying degrees. Roman ...
Meyer Reinhold Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies Boston University, 2002
10
The Question of the Usurpation and the Cycle of Order and ...
Proof for this is in 3 Henry VI, II scene 5, where Henry establishes an order in the life of a shepherd which is contrasted with the chaos at the battlefield.
Anita Frieday, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «USURPATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term usurpation is used in the context of the following news items.
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Ukraine's Constitutional Court judges questioned as witnesses in …
Judges of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine are being questioned as witnesses as part of the criminal case on the usurpation of power, none of them has been ... «Interfax, Jul 15»
2
The Constitution: Judicial usurpation
While the Supreme Court decision with respect to same-sex marriage is the latest example, there are many others where the Supreme Court has rendered a ... «Barnstable Patriot, Jul 15»
3
Zambales guv indicted for graft, usurpation of official functions
Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales said that Ebdane violated Republic Act 3019 or the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act and usurpation of official ... «Sun.Star, Jul 15»
4
Usurpation of authority a criminal act
I am a businessman operating a boutique in a commercial strip. Similar establishments in the area reported a man who identifies himself as an inspector officer ... «The Manila Times, Jul 15»
5
After Obergefell: A First Things Symposium
Today we are faced with the same challenge. Like the Great Emancipator, we must reject and resist an egregious act of judicial usurpation. We must, above all, ... «First Things, Jun 15»
6
House defunds HUD local zoning usurpation
FAIRFAX, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising the House of Representatives for ... «Sonoran News, Jun 15»
7
SBU opens criminal investigation into usurpation of power by Viktor …
The usurpation involved three stages. At the first stage, the Regions party formed a majority in Verkhovna Rada by using bribery, threats and intimidation of ... «ZIK, Apr 15»
8
Purisima didn't commit usurpation of authority—lawyer
MANILA, Philippines—Resigned Philippine National Police chief Director General Alan Purisima did not commit usurpation of authority, his camp maintained on ... «Inquirer.net, Mar 15»
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Graft, usurpation of authority raps lodged vs Purisima
MANILA, Philippines - Charges of graft and usurpation of authority have been filed with the Office of the Ombudsman against resigned Philippine National Police ... «Philippine Star, Mar 15»
10
Usurpation raps up vs Ex-Antique Gov. Javier
SAN JOSE, ANTIQUE - Charges of usurpation of authority are being readied against former Governor Exequiel B. Javier for the latter's continuous presentation ... «InterAksyon, Mar 15»

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