English
Etymology
From Middle English usurpacioun, from Old French usurpacion, from Latin ūsurpātiō; equivalent to usurp + -ation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌjuː.sə(ɹ)ˈpeɪ.ʃən/, /-zə(ɹ)ˈ-/
Noun
usurpation (countable and uncountable, plural usurpations)
- The wrongful seizure of something by force, especially of sovereignty or other authority.
a. 1627 (date written), Francis Bacon, chapter VII, in James Spedding, editor, The Works of Francis Bacon, […]: The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon […], volume IV, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, published 1858, →OCLC, page 270: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; […]
1685, John Dryden, Albion and Albanius, published 1691, Act I, scene i, page 10:Sent from the God's to ſet us free / From Bondage and from Uſurpation!
- Trespass onto another's property without permission.
- A taking or use without right.
Translations
wrongful seizure
- Arabic: غَصْب m (ḡaṣb)
- Armenian: ուզուրպացիա (hy) (uzurpacʻia), յուրացում (hy) (yuracʻum)
- Azerbaijani: qəsb
- Belarusian: узурпа́цыя f (uzurpácyja)
- Bulgarian: узурпа́ция (bg) f (uzurpácija), загра́бване n (zagrábvane), присвоя́ване n (prisvojávane)
- Catalan: usurpació f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 篡位 (zh) (cuànwèi)
- Czech: uzurpace f
- Danish: usurpation (da) c
- Dutch: verovering (nl) f, overweldiging (nl) f, wederrechtelijke inbezitneming, bezitsaanmatiging, toeeigening f, usurpatie (nl) f
- Estonian: usurpeerimine
- Finnish: anastus (fi), kaappaus (fi)
- French: usurpation (fr) f
- Galician: usurpación (gl) f
- Georgian: უზურპაცია (uzurṗacia)
- German: Usurpation (de) f, Anmaßung (de) f, widerrechtliche Inbesitznahme f
- Greek: αντιποίηση (el) f (antipoíisi)
- Hindi: अपहरण (hi) m (apahraṇ)
- Hungarian: bitorlás (hu)
- Icelandic: valdarán n
- Irish: anlathas m
- Italian: usurpazione f
- Japanese: 簒奪 (ja) (さんだつ, sandatsu)
- Korean: 찬탈(簒奪) (ko) (chantal)
- Latin: usurpatio f
- Latvian: uzurpācija f
- Lithuanian: uzurpacija f
- Macedonian: узурпација f (uzurpacija)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: usurpasjon m
- Occitan: usurpacion (oc) f
- Persian: غَصب (fa) (ġasb)
- Polish: uzurpacja f
- Portuguese: usurpação (pt) f
- Romanian: uzurpație f, uzurpare (ro) f
- Russian: узурпа́ция (ru) f (uzurpácija)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: узурпа́ција f
- Roman: uzurpácija (sh) f
- Slovak: uzurpácia f
- Slovene: uzurpacija f
- Spanish: usurpación f
- Swedish: usurpation (sv) c
- Tagalog: paggaga, angka
- Tajik: ғасб (ġasb)
- Turkish: gasp (tr)
- Ukrainian: узурпа́ція (uk) f (uzurpácija)
- Urdu: غَصْب (ġasb)
- Yiddish: אוזורפּירונג f (uzurpirung)
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /y.zyʁ.pa.sjɔ̃/
Noun
usurpation f (plural usurpations)
- usurpation (wrongful seizure)
- that which is usurped
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