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tyrannous

[tir-uh-nuhs]

adjective

tyrannical.

Origin:
1485–95; < Latin tyrann(us) tyrant + -ous

Related forms

tyr·an·nous·ly, adverb

tyr·an·nous·ness, noun

non·tyr·an·nous, adjective

non·tyr·an·nous·ly, adverb

non·tyr·an·nous·ness, noun

Can be confused: tyrannous, tyrannosaur.

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tyranny (ˈtɪrənɪ)

—n , pl -nies
1.	a. government by a tyrant or tyrants; despotism
	b. similarly oppressive and unjust government by more than one person
2.	arbitrary, unreasonable, or despotic behaviour or use of authority: the teacher's tyranny
3.	any harsh discipline or oppression: the tyranny of the clock
4.	a political unit ruled by a tyrant
5.	(esp in ancient Greece) government by a usurper
6.	a tyrannical act

[C14: from Old French tyrannie, from Medieval Latin tyrannia, from Latin tyrannustyrant]

'tyrannous

—*adj*

'tyrannously

—*adv*

'tyrannousness

—n

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"The rugged Pyrrhus, he whose sable arms,
Black as his purpose, did the night resemble
When he lay couched in the ominous horse,
Hath now this dread and black complexion smeared
With heraldry more dismal. Head to foot
Now is he total gules, horridly tricked
With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons,
Baked and impasted with the parching streets,
That lend a tyrannous and a damned light
To their lord's murder. Roasted in wrath and fire,
And thus o'ersized with coagulate gore,
With eyes like carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus
Old grandsire Priam seeks."

-Shakespeare

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