tyranness

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A form of tyrantess — A female tyrant.

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Meanings

nountyranness (plural tyrannesses)

plural tyrannesses

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of tyrantess.

    that proud tyranness

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 46
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    From the vulgar croud Though superstition, tyranness abhorr'd, The reverence due to this majestic pair With threats and execration still demands;

    1744, Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of the Imagination

Origin

From tyrant + -ess.

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APA

tyranness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tyranness

MLA

“tyranness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tyranness. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tyranness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tyranness.

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