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Tyranny   /tˈɪrəni/   Listen
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Tyranny  n.  
1.
The government or authority of a tyrant; a country governed by an absolute ruler; hence, arbitrary or despotic exercise of power; exercise of power over subjects and others with a rigor not authorized by law or justice, or not requisite for the purposes of government. ""Sir," would he (Seneca) say, "an emperor mote need Be virtuous and hate tyranny.""
2.
Cruel government or discipline; as, the tyranny of a schoolmaster.
3.
Severity; rigor; inclemency. "The tyranny of the open night's too rough For nature to endure."





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"Tyranny" Quotes from Famous Books



... you to come," cried Adela, with the wayward tyranny of a child. "It seems so stupid for you to be shut up there like a wild beast in a cage. Oh, Hil, you must ...
— In the King's Name - The Cruise of the "Kestrel" • George Manville Fenn
... duties. Emily knows no more about the duties of life than her little five-year-old girl. She thought she could play with a second husband as she did with the first, and she was gravely mistaken. She complained to me of a thousand acts of tyranny—every one of them, I could see, merely a piece of rude commonsense. The man must be calling himself an idiot for marrying her. I could only listen with a long face. Argument with Emily is out of the question. And I shall take good care not ...
— Eve's Ransom • George Gissing
... splendour for miles along the river bank, that the king known as Lord of the Golden Palace, The Golden Foot, Lord of the White Elephant, held his state there with balls of magnificence, obsequious women, fawning courtiers and all the riot and colour of an Eastern tyranny. How should they care? Now there are ruins—ruins, and the cobras slip in and out through the deserted holy places. They breed their writhing young in the sleeping-chambers of queens, the tigers mew in the ...
— The Ninth Vibration And Other Stories • L. Adams Beck
... your doctrine of the new testament! If Jehovah was an infinite God and knew things from the beginning, He knew that His bible would be a breast-work behind which tyranny and hypocrisy would crouch, and knew His bible would be the auction-block on which the mother would stand while her babe was sold from her, because He knew His bible would be quoted by tyrants; that it would be quoted in defense of robbers called kings, and by hypocrites called priests. He knew ...
— Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I • Robert Green Ingersoll
... the more, under the steadfast, primary rule of God; for having broken the force of human, fallible prescription, we shall the more feel and acknowledge the supremacy of flawless, divine law; for having rejected the tyranny of man's willfulness, we shall submit the more fully to ...
— Essays AEsthetical • George Calvert


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