usurpingly

adv

usurpingly

adv

Etymology From usurping + -ly.

1

Archaic, 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:

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