One who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another.
Illegitimate or controversial claimant to state power.
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Examples for "supplanter "
Examples for "supplanter "
1 There was neither jealousy nor envy in my feelings toward my supplanter .
2 Assuredly I have a certain right to ask who my supplanter is.
3 The whole current of her wrath turned upon the supplanter , this Lord Dawlish.
4 Could I forget my Beach supplanter , my giver of colds in the head?
5 He is rightly named James, or Jacob, for he is a base supplanter ! '
1 All the inhabitants had assembled in the same place, awaiting the usurper .
2 The circumstances were these: A usurper had seized upon the Byzantine throne.
3 Point me, kind and generous Madoc, to the harbour of the usurper .
4 One usurper will be changed for another, and he still in exile.
5 The usurper , Huerta, is becoming more of a menace all the time.
6 Otane thens joined with six other conspirators to put the usurper down.
7 A usurper , whose place is in Peter-Paul prison, with Kornilov and Kishkin.
8 Become not irreverent to the true Church, because of a false usurper .
9 She was a usurper upon their preserve, a trespasser and an interloper.
10 To him, London at best was only an upstart and an usurper .
11 Sy'phax, the usurper of Numid'ia, led up a large army against him.
12 Down with the black usurper , and to the devil with all papists!'
13 Nowadays, the US is the status quo power and China the bumptious usurper .
14 The people in the streets stopped and bowed low, as the usurper passed.
15 Theodosius had just died, in the midst of war with the usurper Eugenius.
16 Both are to be contemplated in the double light of reformer and usurper .
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