Definition of Usurper

U`surp´er
n.1.One who usurps; especially, one who seizes illegally on sovereign power; as, the usurper of a throne, of power, or of the rights of a patron.
A crown will not want pretenders to claim it, not usurpers, if their power serves them, to possess it.
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