In short, the Anarchist tendency is a necessity of progress, a protest against usurpation, privilege, and injustice.
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Usurpation
//ˌjuː.sə(ɹ)ˈpeɪ.ʃən//
Synonyms for "usurpation" (48 found)
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Closest matches (10)
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Related words (24)
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11 entriesTranslations
60 translations across 46 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- غَصْب noun (wrongful seizure)
Armenian
2 entries- յուրացում noun (wrongful seizure)
- ուզուրպացիա noun (wrongful seizure)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- qəsb noun (wrongful seizure)
Belarusian
1 entries- узурпа́цыя noun (wrongful seizure)
Bulgarian
3 entries- загра́бване noun (wrongful seizure)
- присвоя́ване noun (wrongful seizure)
- узурпа́ция noun (wrongful seizure)
Catalan
1 entries- usurpació noun (wrongful seizure)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 篡位 noun (wrongful seizure)
Czech
1 entries- uzurpace noun (wrongful seizure)
Danish
1 entries- usurpation noun (wrongful seizure)
Dutch
4 entries- bezitsaanmatiging noun (wrongful seizure)
- overweldiging noun (wrongful seizure)
- toeeigening noun (wrongful seizure)
- usurpatie noun (wrongful seizure)
Estonian
1 entries- usurpeerimine noun (wrongful seizure)
Finnish
2 entries- anastus noun (wrongful seizure)
- kaappaus noun (wrongful seizure)
French
1 entries- usurpation noun (wrongful seizure)
Galician
1 entries- usurpación noun (wrongful seizure)
Georgian
1 entries- უზურპაცია noun (wrongful seizure)
German
3 entries- Anmaßung noun (wrongful seizure)
- Usurpation noun (wrongful seizure)
- widerrechtliche Inbesitznahme noun (wrongful seizure)
Greek
1 entries- αντιποίηση noun (wrongful seizure)
Hindi
1 entries- अपहरण noun (wrongful seizure)
Hungarian
1 entries- bitorlás noun (wrongful seizure)
Icelandic
1 entries- valdarán noun (wrongful seizure)
Irish
1 entries- anlathas noun (wrongful seizure)
Italian
1 entries- usurpazione noun (wrongful seizure)
Japanese
1 entries- 簒奪 noun (wrongful seizure)
Korean
1 entries- 찬탈 noun (wrongful seizure)
Latin
1 entries- usurpatio noun (wrongful seizure)
Latvian
1 entries- uzurpācija noun (wrongful seizure)
Lithuanian
1 entries- uzurpacija noun (wrongful seizure)
Macedonian
1 entries- узурпација noun (wrongful seizure)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- usurpasjon noun (wrongful seizure)
Occitan
1 entries- usurpacion noun (wrongful seizure)
Persian
1 entries- غَصب noun (wrongful seizure)
Polish
1 entries- uzurpacja noun (wrongful seizure)
Portuguese
1 entries- usurpação noun (wrongful seizure)
Romanian
2 entries- uzurpare noun (wrongful seizure)
- uzurpație noun (wrongful seizure)
Russian
1 entries- узурпа́ция noun (wrongful seizure)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- uzurpácija noun (wrongful seizure)
- узурпа́ција noun (wrongful seizure)
Slovak
1 entries- uzurpácia noun (wrongful seizure)
Slovene
1 entries- uzurpacija noun (wrongful seizure)
Spanish
1 entries- usurpación noun (wrongful seizure)
Swedish
1 entries- usurpation noun (wrongful seizure)
Tagalog
2 entries- angka noun (wrongful seizure)
- paggaga noun (wrongful seizure)
Tajik
1 entries- ғасб noun (wrongful seizure)
Turkish
1 entries- gasp noun (wrongful seizure)
Ukrainian
1 entries- узурпа́ція noun (wrongful seizure)
Urdu
1 entries- غَصْب noun (wrongful seizure)
Yiddish
1 entries- אוזורפּירונג noun (wrongful seizure)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
The third part of practice hath divers branches, but one principal root in these our times, which is the vast and overspreading ambition and usurpation of the see of Rome; […]
Source: wiktionary
Sent from the God's to ſet us free / From Bondage and from Uſurpation!
Source: wiktionary
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