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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

usurpingly en · ADV

Etymology

From usurp + -ing + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (archaic, not-comparable, poetic) So 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: