Usurpingly

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    So as to usurp. archaic, not-comparable, poetic

    "The fever’d diadem on my brow I claim’d and won usurpingly —— Hath not the same fierce heirdom given Rome to the Caesar — this to me?"

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"The fever’d diadem on my brow I claim’d and won usurpingly —— Hath not the same fierce heirdom given Rome to the Caesar — this to me?"

Etymology

From usurping + -ly.

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