usurpation
noun/ˌjuː.sə(ɹ)ˈpeɪ.ʃən/ · /-zə(ɹ)ˈ-/
Etymology From Middle English usurpacioun, from Old French usurpacion, from Latin ūsurpātiō; equivalent to usurp + -ation.
1
The wrongful seizure of something by force, especially of sovereignty or other authority.
- 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; […]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:
- Sent from the God's to ſet us free / From Bondage and from Uſurpation!1685, John Dryden, Albion and Albanius, published 1691, Act I, scene i, page 10:
2
Trespass onto another's property without permission.
3
A taking or use without right.