usurpature
English
Noun
usurpature (usually uncountable, plural usurpatures)
- (archaic) Usurpation.
- 1855, Robert Browning, “Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha”, in Men and Women […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, stanza 23, page 201:
- God's gold just shining its last where that lodges, / Palled beneath Man's usurpature!
References
- “usurpature”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin
Participle
ūsūrpātūre
- vocative masculine singular of ūsūrpātūrus