Hypertext Webster Gateway: "usurper"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Usurper \U*surp"er\, n.
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.
--South.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
usurper
n : one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place
of another [syn: {supplanter}]
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