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usurper

/yoo-sur-per, -zur‐/US // yuˈsɜr pər, -ˈzɜr‐ //

僭主,篡夺者,篡改者,篡位者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : someone who seizes an office or position of power by force or without legal right, or who is perceived to have done so: The usurper Vitigis gathered his army together and laid siege to Rome.

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Examples

  • This usurper showed a better understanding of why ladybirds were different colors and jumped from 5th to 1st position during February.

  • Some weeks ago, when the United States was contending with its own insurrection, I discussed the nature of coups d’etat and how, last century, usurpers tended to seize TV stations before storming presidential palaces.

  • The nimblest usurpers snatch power before anyone knows what has happened.

  • Branded a usurper, Bruce had been excommunicated by the Vatican.

  • Or because he supported the deposed King Richard II rather than the usurper Henry Bolingbroke?

  • This emboldened him to add “the usurper that is in the White House … B. Hussein Obama” to the list said in his church on Sundays.

  • He has been offering “imprecatory prayers” against “the usurper that is in the White House…B. Hussein Obama.”

  • To sum the whole matter, the Britisher is an odious usurper “who has always got one eye open.”

  • If reason is to rule, the usurper, religion, must be ejected; hence atheism was fundamental to his entire system.

  • And when they were through, the King (for all he was a rank usurper) spoke them fair, and gave each man three guineas in his hand.

  • The circumstances were propitious to the designs of a usurper.

  • This scandalous outrage was soon reported at Rome, and the sacrilegious usurper was excommunicated and banished.