usurpature

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noun

Usurpation.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

nounusurpature (usually uncountable, plural usurpatures)

plural usurpatures

  1. archaicuncountableusuallyUsurpation.

    God's gold just shining its last where that lodges, / Palled beneath Man's usurpature!

    1855, Robert Browning, “Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha”, in Men and Women […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, stanza 23, page 201
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APA

usurpature. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/usurpature

MLA

“usurpature.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/usurpature. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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