tyrannyn.

Brit.

/ˈtɪrəni/,

/ˈtɪrn̩i/, U.S.

/ˈtɪrəni/

Forms: Middle English–1500s tirannye, tyrannye, tyrannie, (Middle English thir-, thyrannye, tirandye, tyreny, terannye), 1500s tiranni, tyranye (Scottish tyrany), tyrranie, 1500s–1600s tiranny ( tirr-), tyrannie, (1600s tirany), Middle English– tyranny.

Etymology: < French tyrannie (13th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), = Provençal tirannia , Spanish tirania , Italian tirannia , < medieval Latin tyrannia , < Latin tyrannus , Greek τύραννος tyrant n.; compare Greek τυραννία (rare).

a. The government of a tyrant or absolute ruler; the position or rule of a tyrant (in sense 1).

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [noun] > tyranny, despotism, or autocracy

tyrannyc1374

tyrandisea1387

tyrannity1535

absoluteness1574

tyrannism1591

Nimrodizing1605

will government1644

autocracy1659

autarchy1665

Neronism1670

despotism1728

sultanism1821

absolutism1824

autocratism1833

despotocracya1860

tyrannis1878

tyrantship1885

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > absolute ruler > [noun] > position of

tyrannyc1374

dictaturec1475

dictatory1533

dictatorship1542

dictatorate1815

tyrannis1878

c1374 G. Chaucer Anelida & Arcite 66 And whan that old Creon [king of Thebes] gan espie How that the blode riall was brought edoun, He heled that Cite by his Thyrannye.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 94 They saye that he aunswered his friendes, that principalitie and tyrannie [1595 tirannie], was in deede a goodly place.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 106 Solon liued long time after Pisistratus had vsurped the tyrannie.

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iv. vi. §6. 284 The Athenians..were fallen..vnder the tyrannie of Lachares.

1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes Pref. 4 Of that honour Dionysius the elder was no less ambitious, then before of his attaining to the Tyranny.

a1727 I. Newton Chronol. Anc. Kingdoms Amended (1728) i. 124 Pisistratus began to affect the Tyranny of that city [Athens].

1835 Penny Cycl. III. 15/1 Pisistratus and his son held the tyranny of Athens for thirty-six years.

1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 19/1 The tyranny of Dionysios fell, as usual, in the second generation.

b. In general sense: Absolute sovereignty.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > [noun] > absolute authority

empery1529

wilful empire1533

empire1579

dictatorship1580

imperiousness1630

incorrigibilitya1631

tyranny1651

despotism1797

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iv. xlvi From Aristotle's civil philosophy, they have learned, to call all manner of common~wealths but the popular..tyranny.

1668 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) iv. vii. 300 Is it not absolute and unlimited Sovereignty,..which we from the Greeks call Tyranny?

1681 H. Neville Plato Redivivus 38 Aristotle..calls Tyranny the Corruption of Monarchy.

c. With a and plural. A state ruled by a tyrant or absolute prince; an absolute or despotic government.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > a or the state > [noun] > a despotic state

tyranny1605

despotism1856

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. L4 Honors in free Monarchies and Common wealths, had a sweetnesse more, than in Tyrannies .

1628 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Peloponnesian War (1822) 8 In most of the cities there were erected Tyrannies.

1680 W. Temple Ess. Orig. & Nature Govt. in Wks. (1731) I. 97 Some of the smaller States, but especially those of the Cities, fell often under Tyrannies, which spring naturally out of Popular Governments.

1712 J. Swift Proposal for Eng. Tongue 13 The Change of their [i.e. the Roman] Government into a Tyranny, which ruined the Study of Eloquence.

1838 T. Arnold Hist. Rome (1846) I. xxi. 454 All the ancient writers..call the Government of Dionysius a tyranny.

1881 B. Jowett tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War I. 10 The revenues of her [Hellas'] cities increased, and in most of them tyrannies were established; they had hitherto been ruled by hereditary kings, having fixed prerogatives.

2. The action or government of a tyrannical ruler; oppressive or unjustly severe government.

ΚΠ

c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Prol. 375 Tyrauntis of lumbardye That vsyn wilfulhed & tyrannye [v.r. tirandye].

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 201 Of crualte the felonie Engendred is of tirannie.

c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 82 Roote of discorde is froward tyrannye.

1495 Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. (W. de W.) vi. xviii. n iij/1 Ryghtful lordshyp ouersettith not his subgettes by tyranny, but he defendyth theym.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. vii. f. vii Of this [Madan] is lytell or no memory made by any wryters, except y^t some wryte of hym y^t he vsyd great Tiranny amonge his Brytons.

1555 R. Eden Disc. Vyages Butrigarius & Cabote in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 258 The patriarche of Constantinople was oppressed by the Tiranni of the Turkes.

1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 637 We may call that a tirannie, when the prince accounteth all his will as a iust law, and hath no care either of pietie, iustice, or faith.

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 137 The fyfte quha helde the gouernement..for his gret tirannie..he is slane.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. v. 122 The last was I that felt thy tyrrannie .

1636 E. Dacres tr. N. Machiavel Disc. Livy I. 172 That part of the nobility, that hath not a share in the Tyrannie, is alwayes enemy to the Tyrant.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 95 Tyrannie must be, Though to the Tyrant thereby no excuse.

1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 167 Parliament Tyranny began to succeed Church Tyranny.

1792 J. Almon Anecd. Life W. Pitt (octavo ed.) III. xl. 87 The House, in committing the City Magistrates to prison, without hearing their defence upon the point of privilege, had been guilty of a gross and palpable act of tyranny.

1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. x. 396 A monarchy, in which selfish aims predominate, becomes a tyranny.

1836 H. Smith Tin Trumpet I. 271 Sir Thomas More transported himself from the tyranny of Henry VIII. into Utopia.

1863 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. VII. i. 9 The accession of Mary had found the new opinions equally dishonoured by tyranny.

1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. IV. iii. 263 In political catastrophes revolution is nearest when tyranny is at its worst.

a. Arbitrary or oppressive exercise of power; unjustly severe use of one's authority; despotic treatment or influence; harsh, severe, or unmerciful action; with a and plural, an instance of this, a tyrannical act or proceeding.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [noun]

threat971

duressc1320

defoulc1330

tyrantry1340

tyrannyc1368

oppressinga1382

overleadinga1382

tyrandisea1382

overlayingc1384

oppression1387

oversettinga1398

thronga1400

overpressingc1450

impressionc1470

tyrantshipc1470

tyrannesse?a1475

aggravation1481

defouling1483

supprissiona1500

oppressmentc1537

conculcation1547

iron hand?1570

thrall1578

tyrannizing1589

tyranting1596

ingrating1599

pressure1616

regrate1621

overpressure1644

slavishness1684

iron heel1798

c1368 G. Chaucer Compl. Pite 6 The cruelte and Tyrannye [v.rr. tirannye, thirannye] Of loue.

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 207 The tirannies whiche he wroght.

c1402 J. Lydgate Compl. Black Knight 665 Jelousye..That hath so longe..Werreyed Trouthe with his tirannye.

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. O.j He that hath muche, doeth tyranny to hym that hath but littell.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccccxlix It is a starke tyranny, that maried priestes should be put from the holy ministery.

1568 J. Jewel Let. 7 May in Wks. (1850) IV. 1275 I am afraid of printers: their tyranny is terrible.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 546 He delights to see men..torn with Elephants. Of these tyrannies he reckons many particulars which he saw.

1642 T. Fuller Holy State iv. x. 285 'Tis tyranny to trample on him that prostrates himself.

1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity xvii. 62 All the Frauds and Tyrannies of this Unchristian, though over~much Anointed, Priesthood.

1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation liii. 537 Among other his tyrannies,..the boy was gotten into Boner's house, and there whipped with rods in a most lamentable manner.

1747 Bp. J. Butler Serm. in Wks. (1874) II. 302 The tyranny of our own lawless passions is the..most dangerous of all tyrannies.

1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. i. iii. 83 The worst kind of tyranny, that of a blind fanaticism.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xl. 364 I commenced the anti-scorbutic tyranny at once.

1856 C. Kingsley Lett. (1878) I. 474 Lifting up your voice to expose the tyranny of ‘Union’ strikes.

1886 M. F. Sheldon tr. G. Flaubert Salammbô 24 The tyrannies of discipline.

b. Violent or lawless action; violence, outrage, villany. Obsolete or archaic.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun]

tyrantry1340

tyranny1475

licentiousness1553

lawlessness1591

exorbitance1611

exorbitancy1619

anarchism1642

outlawry1836

outlawry1869

jungle law1894

law of the jungle1894

1475 Rolls of Parl. VI. 138/2 For fere of which Robberies and Tyrany, doon by the said Henry Bodrugan.

1547 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. I. 75 The greit preparationis and tyrany divisit and ordanit be our saidis auld ynemeis.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 250 When the Scottishe king had finished this hys tiranny vpon the Towne.

1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xx. 102 Be tyrannie, To sla our rycht Regent.

1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 142 Which crueltie he vsed, because they a little before had vsed the like tyrannie against his Turks.

Derivatives

† ˈtyranny v. (intransitive) = tyrannize v. 3. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > oppression > oppress [verb (intransitive)]

holec1175

thringc1175

domineer1591

tyrannizea1593

ingrate1600

oppress1611

magistrate1623

tyranny1650

1650 R. Gentilis tr. V. Malvezzi Considerations Lives Alcibiades & Corialanus 45 Our sense doth with ease tyranny over us.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tyranny
释义	tyrannyn. Brit. /ˈtɪrəni/, /ˈtɪrn̩i/, U.S. /ˈtɪrəni/ Forms: Middle English–1500s tirannye, tyrannye, tyrannie, (Middle English thir-, thyrannye, tirandye, tyreny, terannye), 1500s tiranni, tyranye (Scottish tyrany), tyrranie, 1500s–1600s tiranny ( tirr-), tyrannie, (1600s tirany), Middle English– tyranny. Etymology: < French tyrannie (13th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), = Provençal tirannia , Spanish tirania , Italian tirannia , < medieval Latin tyrannia , < Latin tyrannus , Greek τύραννος tyrant n.; compare Greek τυραννία (rare). 1. a. The government of a tyrant or absolute ruler; the position or rule of a tyrant (in sense 1). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [noun] > tyranny, despotism, or autocracy tyrannyc1374 tyrandisea1387 tyrannity1535 absoluteness1574 tyrannism1591 Nimrodizing1605 will government1644 autocracy1659 autarchy1665 Neronism1670 despotism1728 sultanism1821 absolutism1824 autocratism1833 despotocracya1860 tyrannis1878 tyrantship1885 society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > absolute ruler > [noun] > position of tyrannyc1374 dictaturec1475 dictatory1533 dictatorship1542 dictatorate1815 tyrannis1878 c1374 G. Chaucer Anelida & Arcite 66 And whan that old Creon [king of Thebes] gan espie How that the blode riall was brought edoun, He heled that Cite by his Thyrannye. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 94 They saye that he aunswered his friendes, that principalitie and tyrannie [1595 tirannie], was in deede a goodly place. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 106 Solon liued long time after Pisistratus had vsurped the tyrannie. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iv. vi. §6. 284 The Athenians..were fallen..vnder the tyrannie of Lachares. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes Pref. 4 Of that honour Dionysius the elder was no less ambitious, then before of his attaining to the Tyranny. a1727 I. Newton Chronol. Anc. Kingdoms Amended (1728) i. 124 Pisistratus began to affect the Tyranny of that city [Athens]. 1835 Penny Cycl. III. 15/1 Pisistratus and his son held the tyranny of Athens for thirty-six years. 1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 19/1 The tyranny of Dionysios fell, as usual, in the second generation. b. In general sense: Absolute sovereignty. ΘΚΠ society > authority > [noun] > absolute authority empery1529 wilful empire1533 empire1579 dictatorship1580 imperiousness1630 incorrigibilitya1631 tyranny1651 despotism1797 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iv. xlvi From Aristotle's civil philosophy, they have learned, to call all manner of common~wealths but the popular..tyranny. 1668 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) iv. vii. 300 Is it not absolute and unlimited Sovereignty,..which we from the Greeks call Tyranny? 1681 H. Neville Plato Redivivus 38 Aristotle..calls Tyranny the Corruption of Monarchy. c. With a and plural. A state ruled by a tyrant or absolute prince; an absolute or despotic government. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > a or the state > [noun] > a despotic state tyranny1605 despotism1856 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. L4 Honors in free Monarchies and Common wealths, had a sweetnesse more, than in Tyrannies . View more context for this quotation 1628 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Peloponnesian War (1822) 8 In most of the cities there were erected Tyrannies. 1680 W. Temple Ess. Orig. & Nature Govt. in Wks. (1731) I. 97 Some of the smaller States, but especially those of the Cities, fell often under Tyrannies, which spring naturally out of Popular Governments. 1712 J. Swift Proposal for Eng. Tongue 13 The Change of their [i.e. the Roman] Government into a Tyranny, which ruined the Study of Eloquence. 1838 T. Arnold Hist. Rome (1846) I. xxi. 454 All the ancient writers..call the Government of Dionysius a tyranny. 1881 B. Jowett tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War I. 10 The revenues of her [Hellas'] cities increased, and in most of them tyrannies were established; they had hitherto been ruled by hereditary kings, having fixed prerogatives. 2. The action or government of a tyrannical ruler; oppressive or unjustly severe government. ΚΠ c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Prol. 375 Tyrauntis of lumbardye That vsyn wilfulhed & tyrannye [v.r. tirandye]. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 201 Of crualte the felonie Engendred is of tirannie. c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 82 Roote of discorde is froward tyrannye. 1495 Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. (W. de W.) vi. xviii. n iij/1 Ryghtful lordshyp ouersettith not his subgettes by tyranny, but he defendyth theym. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. vii. f. vii Of this [Madan] is lytell or no memory made by any wryters, except y^t some wryte of hym y^t he vsyd great Tiranny amonge his Brytons. 1555 R. Eden Disc. Vyages Butrigarius & Cabote in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 258 The patriarche of Constantinople was oppressed by the Tiranni of the Turkes. 1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 637 We may call that a tirannie, when the prince accounteth all his will as a iust law, and hath no care either of pietie, iustice, or faith. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 137 The fyfte quha helde the gouernement..for his gret tirannie..he is slane. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. v. 122 The last was I that felt thy tyrrannie . View more context for this quotation 1636 E. Dacres tr. N. Machiavel Disc. Livy I. 172 That part of the nobility, that hath not a share in the Tyrannie, is alwayes enemy to the Tyrant. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 95 Tyrannie must be, Though to the Tyrant thereby no excuse. View more context for this quotation 1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 167 Parliament Tyranny began to succeed Church Tyranny. 1792 J. Almon Anecd. Life W. Pitt (octavo ed.) III. xl. 87 The House, in committing the City Magistrates to prison, without hearing their defence upon the point of privilege, had been guilty of a gross and palpable act of tyranny. 1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. x. 396 A monarchy, in which selfish aims predominate, becomes a tyranny. 1836 H. Smith Tin Trumpet I. 271 Sir Thomas More transported himself from the tyranny of Henry VIII. into Utopia. 1863 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. VII. i. 9 The accession of Mary had found the new opinions equally dishonoured by tyranny. 1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. IV. iii. 263 In political catastrophes revolution is nearest when tyranny is at its worst. 3. a. Arbitrary or oppressive exercise of power; unjustly severe use of one's authority; despotic treatment or influence; harsh, severe, or unmerciful action; with a and plural, an instance of this, a tyrannical act or proceeding. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [noun] threat971 duressc1320 defoulc1330 tyrantry1340 tyrannyc1368 oppressinga1382 overleadinga1382 tyrandisea1382 overlayingc1384 oppression1387 oversettinga1398 thronga1400 overpressingc1450 impressionc1470 tyrantshipc1470 tyrannesse?a1475 aggravation1481 defouling1483 supprissiona1500 oppressmentc1537 conculcation1547 iron hand?1570 thrall1578 tyrannizing1589 tyranting1596 ingrating1599 pressure1616 regrate1621 overpressure1644 slavishness1684 iron heel1798 c1368 G. Chaucer Compl. Pite 6 The cruelte and Tyrannye [v.rr. tirannye, thirannye] Of loue. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 207 The tirannies whiche he wroght. c1402 J. Lydgate Compl. Black Knight 665 Jelousye..That hath so longe..Werreyed Trouthe with his tirannye. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. O.j He that hath muche, doeth tyranny to hym that hath but littell. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccccxlix It is a starke tyranny, that maried priestes should be put from the holy ministery. 1568 J. Jewel Let. 7 May in Wks. (1850) IV. 1275 I am afraid of printers: their tyranny is terrible. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 546 He delights to see men..torn with Elephants. Of these tyrannies he reckons many particulars which he saw. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State iv. x. 285 'Tis tyranny to trample on him that prostrates himself. 1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity xvii. 62 All the Frauds and Tyrannies of this Unchristian, though over~much Anointed, Priesthood. 1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation liii. 537 Among other his tyrannies,..the boy was gotten into Boner's house, and there whipped with rods in a most lamentable manner. 1747 Bp. J. Butler Serm. in Wks. (1874) II. 302 The tyranny of our own lawless passions is the..most dangerous of all tyrannies. 1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. i. iii. 83 The worst kind of tyranny, that of a blind fanaticism. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xl. 364 I commenced the anti-scorbutic tyranny at once. 1856 C. Kingsley Lett. (1878) I. 474 Lifting up your voice to expose the tyranny of ‘Union’ strikes. 1886 M. F. Sheldon tr. G. Flaubert Salammbô 24 The tyrannies of discipline. b. Violent or lawless action; violence, outrage, villany. Obsolete or archaic. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] tyrantry1340 tyranny1475 licentiousness1553 lawlessness1591 exorbitance1611 exorbitancy1619 anarchism1642 outlawry1836 outlawry1869 jungle law1894 law of the jungle1894 1475 Rolls of Parl. VI. 138/2 For fere of which Robberies and Tyrany, doon by the said Henry Bodrugan. 1547 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. I. 75 The greit preparationis and tyrany divisit and ordanit be our saidis auld ynemeis. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 250 When the Scottishe king had finished this hys tiranny vpon the Towne. 1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xx. 102 Be tyrannie, To sla our rycht Regent. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 142 Which crueltie he vsed, because they a little before had vsed the like tyrannie against his Turks. Derivatives † ˈtyranny v. (intransitive) = tyrannize v. 3. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > oppression > oppress [verb (intransitive)] holec1175 thringc1175 domineer1591 tyrannizea1593 ingrate1600 oppress1611 magistrate1623 tyranny1650 1650 R. Gentilis tr. V. Malvezzi Considerations Lives Alcibiades & Corialanus 45 Our sense doth with ease tyranny over us. 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