[f. USURP v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb; usurpation; an instance of this. Also in fig. context.
1521. Ld. Dacre, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. II. I. 282. The Dukes fader … in the tyme of his usurping made diverse knightes.
1550. Crowley, Inform. & Petit., 1. The vsurpyng of tenthes to priuate commoditie.
1595. Shaks., John, II. i. 119. Excuse it is to beat vsurping downe.
1649. Lovelace, Lucasta, Poems (1904), 37. Dropping December shall come weeping in, Bewayle th’ usurping of his Raigne.
1656. Earl Monm., trans. Boccalini’s Advts. fr. Parnass., I. lxxi. (1674), 89. The injurious usurping the Countries liberty.
a. 1667. Jer. Taylor, Pol. Disc. (1674), b 4. To secure the inclosures of the Clerical orders from the usurpings and invasions of … unhallowed spirits.
