"usurpress" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: usurpresses [plural]
Etymology: From usurper + -ess. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|usurper|ess}} usurper + -ess Head templates: {{en-noun}} usurpress (plural usurpresses)
  1. (rare) A female usurper. Tags: rare Synonyms: usurpatrix

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "17C, William Cartwright, reproduced in 1951 in The Plays and Poems of William Cartwright, p421",
          "text": "This yet may dash the Marriage; and Leucasia That bold Usurpress of my Bed shall miss Of being saluted Queen to night howe'r."
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          "ref": "1863, Emma Robinson, Mauleverer's divorce: A Story of Woman's Wrongs, page 59:",
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          "ref": "1963, Victor Alexandrov, The Kremlin: Nerve-centre of Russian History, page 147:",
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          "text": "I would \"attend\" Auschwitz with invisible resources that vastly increased the chances of survival, resources that included even my linguistic abilities, since German was my mother tongue, so to speak, and French my vernacular, while English was the language I had spoken with my brother and studied successfully in school. Finally, Russian was the rule with my father, sister, and the usurpress, and I was literally at home in it.",
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