Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a usurping manner; by usurpation; without just right or claim.
Wiktionary
- adv. So as to usurp.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In a usurping manner.
Etymologies
- usurping + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“France but I must needes looke on Paris with a favourable eye: it hath my hart from my infancy; whereof it hath befalne me, as of excellent things, the more other faire and stately cities I have seene since, the more hir beauty hath power and doth still usurpingly gaine upon my affections.”
“Colin Jones and Daily Yomiuri on J judiciary's usurpingly paternal attitudes re families post-divorce”
“Colin Jones and Daily Yomiuri on J judiciary's usurpingly paternal attitudes re families post-divorce SMJ/NGO combined report for UN CERD Committee regarding Japan's human rights record Day Care Center in Tokorozawa, Saitama teaches toddlers "Little Black Sambo", complete with the epithets”
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