usurpingly

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Etymology

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usurping +‎ -ly

Adverb

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usurpingly (not comparable)

  1. (poetic, archaic) So as to usurp.
    • 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
      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?

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