usurper
NounSynonyms:
supplanter
Open English WordNet
Noun (1)
- one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of anotherSynonyms: supplanterType of wrongdoer, offenderKinds claim jumper
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
U·surp′er noun
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.— Robert South
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54