Dictionary

usurpator en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle French usurpateur or Late Latin ūsūrpātor.

Meanings

1. A usurper.
   • Great God restore us our liberties, / With our ancient Laws and Customes, / Under the Iron yoak of Usurpators, / And lead us not 1654, Iames Howell, Parthenopoeia, or The History of the Most Noble and Renowned Kingdom of Naples, with the Dominions Therunto Annexed, and the Lives of All Their Kings, London: […] Humphrey Moseley, […], page 37; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:
   • [“]It would thus amount to a gross mistake to see merely errors in the angelology of the Kabalists and Gnostics, so severely treated by the Apostle of Nations” explains the Marquis de Mirville now coquetting with those whom he generally designates “as demon-worshippers.” — [“]For his (Paul’s) imposing censure reached only their exaggerations, vicious interpretations, and what is more, the application of those handsome (beaux) titles, to the miserable personnel of DEMONIACAL USURPATORS. 1885–1886, H[elena] P[etrovna] Blavatsky, “The Souls of the Stars – Universal Heliolatry”, in David Reigle, editor, The Secret Doctrine Würzburg Manuscript: The 1885-1886 Version with the Stanzas of Dzyan and H.P.B.’s Accompanying Commentaries, Cotopaxi, Colo.: Eastern School Press, published 2014, →ISBN, volume I (History of Some Great Occultists), page 99:
   • It was because Esarhaddon was stronger than his brothers that his brothers went down in history as usurpators. Had the power relations been different, the titles would also have been assigned accordingly. It is striking that the expression ‘a king who trusts in his own strength’ is also used for usurpators. 2008, Aarnoud van der Deijl, Protest or Propaganda: War in the Old Testament Book of Kings and in Contemporaneous Ancient Near Eastern Texts (Studia Semitica Neerlandica; 51), Leiden; Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, page 42:

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Relateds

usurpatrix