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Webster 1913 Edition


Tyranness

Ty′ran-ness

,
Noun.
A female tyrant.
[Obs.]
“That proud tyranness.”
Spenser.
Akenside.

Webster 1828 Edition


Tyranness

TYR'ANNESS

,
Noun.
[from tyrant.] A female tyrant.

Definition 2024


tyranness

tyranness

English

Noun

tyranness (plural tyrannesses)

  1. (obsolete) A female tyrant.
    • That proud tyranness. Spenser.
    • 1744: Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of the Imagination
      • From the vulgar croud
        Though superstition, tyranness abhorr'd,
        The reverence due to this majestic pair
        With threats and execration still demands;