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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.
Definition 2024
tyranness
tyranness
English
Noun
tyranness (plural tyrannesses)
- (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;
- From the vulgar croud