0 the act of taking control of something without having the right to, especially of a position of power:
He spent nearly all his life fighting against oppression and usurpation.
Human Rights organizations have persistently exposed the blatant usurpation of our rights and privileges.
The same reasoning could be applied to the theme of imperial usurpation.
In the post-war period, barrio representatives increasingly filed accusations about illegal sales and usurpations of their lands by outsiders.
It is interesting to note what aspects are stressed by the narrators : royal genealogies, migrations, warfare, succession conflicts and usurpation.
They signal the near total usurpation of the altruistic rewards of medicine by monetary gain.
Does a psychic usurpation equal in complicity the dissemination of an external one in an art work?
