Definition of usurpation

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u·sur·pa·tion

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NOUN:

The act of usurping, especially the wrongful seizure of royal sovereignty.
A wrongful seizure or exercise of authority or privilege belonging to another; an encroachment: "in our own day, gross usurpations upon the liberty of private life" (John Stuart Mill).

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