usurpingly

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adverb

So as to usurp.

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Meanings

adverbusurpingly (not comparable)
  1. archaicnot comparablepoeticSo as to usurp.

    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?

    1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems

Origin

From usurp + -ing + -ly.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

pursuingly
Cite this entry
APA

usurpingly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/usurpingly

MLA

“usurpingly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/usurpingly. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “usurpingly,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/usurpingly.

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