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tyrant
  1. (historical, ancient Greece) A usurper; one who gains power and rules extralegally, distinguished from kings elevated by election or succession.
  2. (obsolete) Any monarch or governor.
  3. A despot; a ruler who governs unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.
  4. (by extension) Any person who abuses the power of position or office to treat others unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.
  5. (by extension) A villain; a person or thing who uses strength or violence to treat others unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.
  6. The tyrant birds, members of the family Tyrannidae, which often fight or drive off other birds which approach their nests.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “Every tyrant and every oppressor deserve the full wrath of justice.”
      “Beneath a perfunctory veil of fiction, Keneally shows us a real-life tyrant exercising a power so absolute and unfeeling that it appears amoral, rather than immoral.”
tyranny
  1. A government in which a single ruler (a tyrant) has absolute power; this system of government.
  2. The office or jurisdiction of an absolute ruler.
  3. Absolute power, or its use.
  4. A system of government in which power is exercised on behalf of the ruler or ruling class, without regard to the wishes of the governed.
  5. Extreme severity or rigour.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “The most unscrupulous government does not usually cover up its tyranny and aggressions by Pharisaic mummeries.”
      “The movement's first manifesto declared that they were subversives committed to opposing tyranny.”
      “We implore you to acknowledge that the Department of Justice cannot reasonably be a party to such tyranny.”
tyrannicide
  1. The killing of a tyrant.
  2. Someone who kills a tyrant.
  3. Examples:
    1. “As a political strategy there are plenty of reasons not to get too enthusiastic about tyrannicide.”
      “Classical tyrannicide was valorized because it could remove the oppressor with the minimum force.”
      “John contended that tyrannicide was a duty if it set people free for the service of God.”
tyrannicalness
tyrannist
  1. (rare) One who supports or practices tyranny.
tyranniser
  1. Alternative form of tyrannizer
tyranness
  1. (obsolete) A female tyrant.
  2. Synonyms:
tyrannie
  1. Obsolete spelling of tyranny
tyrannizer
tyran
  1. Obsolete form of tyrant.
  2. Examples:
    1. “She whipped around and grabbed the great saber from Spade's back and placed the unsheathed blade before Tyran.”
      Tyran reared onto his hind legs in rage, his nostrils flaring and his breathing intense.”
      “In the only game in the ENL First Division, Bedlington Terriers lost to Celtic Nation, for whom Michael Reed and Tyran Taylor scored.”
tyraunt
  1. Obsolete form of tyrant.
tyrantess
tyrannicides
  1. plural of tyrannicide
tyrannisers
  1. plural of tyranniser
tyrannizers
tyrannists
  1. plural of tyrannist
tyrannesses
tyrantesses
tyraunts
  1. plural of tyraunt
tyrannies
  1. plural of tyranny
  2. Examples:
    1. “This, and not the subventions of hegemonic states, is what will ultimately defeat both the secular tyrannies and the religious sectarians.”
      “She believes we are falling for a false kind of moral equivalence between democratic societies and tyrannies.”
      “It would be easy to make glib comparisons with various tyrannies of the past, but I don't think they'd be quite accurate.”
tyrants
  1. plural of tyrant
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Is the response to the extreme cruelty of tyrants the defining moment of the human condition?”
      “But would these crimes cease to be crimes if, instead of being committed by unscrupulous tyrants, they were legitimated by popular consensus?”
      “The tyrants, who would have disgraced the society of gods and men, were thrown headlong into the Tartarean abyss.”
tyrans
  1. plural of tyran
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