tyrantship

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noun

The condition of being a tyrant; tyranny.

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Meanings

nountyrantship (countable and uncountable, plural tyrantships)

plural tyrantships

  1. countableuncountableThe condition of being a tyrant; tyranny.

    Since that time, he has been as devoted a slave to her tyrantship as any of us; and that's saying a great deal.

    1864, The Monthly Religious Magazine, volume 32, page 168
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    The suitors are just as delightfully and professionally evil: the tyrant of Agrigentum points out as an objective fact that they obtain their tyrantships by underhand villainy (πανουργία) rather than by force.

    1982, Graham Anderson, Eros Sophistes: Ancient Novelists at Play, page 15

Origin

From tyrant + -ship.

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Chicago

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