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usurper
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
[1913 Webster]
A crown will not want pretenders to claim it, not
usurpers, if their power serves them, to possess it.
--South.
[1913 Webster]
