せんせつ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of せんせつ – see the following entry.

【僭窃】 [noun] (literary) stealing something that belongs to a person of a higher rank, such as the rank of a monarch, beyond one's status [verb] (literary) to steal something that belongs to a person of a higher rank, such as the rank of a monarch, beyond one's status

(This term, せんせつ, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)