Tyranny definition
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift) Immediately surrounding Mrs Musgrove were the little Harvilles, whom she was sedulously guarding from the tyranny of the two children from the Cottage, expressly arrived to amuse them.Īnd as it was tyranny in any government to require the first, so it was weakness not to enforce the second: for a man may be allowed to keep poisons in his closet, but not to vend them about for cordials. (The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)Īll John Reed's violent tyrannies, all his sisters' proud indifference, all his mother's aversion, all the servants' partiality, turned up in my disturbed mind like a dark deposit in a turbid well. I would have you bear this in mind, and give great heed to it that you may bring me word of all cartels, challenges, wrongs, tyrannies, infamies, and wronging of damsels. Crupp, in consequence of the tyranny she established over me, was dreadful. The lessons were not tender that he had learned of their tyranny and cruelty in the days of the Indian villages.Īnd here I may remark, that what I underwent from Mrs.
Tyrannical (marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior) Tyrannic tyrannical (characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule having absolute sovereignty) Police state (a country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police))ĭominance through threat of punishment and violenceĪscendance ascendancy ascendence ascendency control dominance (the state that exists when one person or group has power over another) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tyranny"):
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objectsĪbsolutism authoritarianism Caesarism despotism dictatorship monocracy one-man rule shogunate Stalinism totalitarianism tyrannyĪutarchy autocracy (a political system governed by a single individual)