All 3 Uses of
usurp
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Usurper.†
Chpt 1usurper = one who seizes or takes control without authority
- Because the theme of the false or the usurping or the adulterous brother or all three in one is to Shakespeare, what the poor are not, always with him.†
Chpt 9 *usurping = seizing or taking control without authority
- As they walked they at times stopped and walked again continuing their tête-à-tête (which, of course, he was utterly out of) about sirens enemies of man's reason, mingled with a number of other topics of the same category, usurpers, historical cases of the kind while the man in the sweeper car or you might as well call it in the sleeper car who in any case couldn't possibly hear because they were too far simply sat in his seat near the end of lower Gardiner street and looked after their lowbacked car.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
seize or take control without authority