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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tyranny
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Any political system that refuses to allow people to protest becomes a tyranny.
▪ He was eager to tell everyone of his father's tyrannies.
▪ parental tyranny
▪ the extraordinary struggle against tyranny in South Africa
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He refused to submit to cruelty and tyranny.
▪ In their hearts, they love tyrannies that suit them.
▪ Modernization by tyranny is no more likely to work today than it did when Stalin tried it half a century ago.
▪ People who join citizen militias often believe the government is out of control and armed citizens are needed to prevent federal tyranny.
▪ The forces of tyranny and aggression shelled the Mandali suburbs, Khurmal and Darband-e-Khan with long-range artillery.
▪ This rust-blood pouring from mortal wounds in the planet's skin is a terrible indictment of the tyranny we climbers inflict.
▪ We have never watched before how the tyranny began.
▪ You, as members of the grand jury, are the living barriers between citizens and tyranny.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tyranny

Tyranny \Tyr"an*ny\ (t[i^]r"an*n[y^]), n. [OE. tirannye, OF. tirannie, F. tyrannie; cf. It. tirannia; Gr. tyranni`a, tyranni`s, L. tyrannis. See Tyrant.]

  1. The government or authority of a tyrant; a country governed by an absolute ruler; hence, arbitrary or despotic exercise of power; exercise of power over subjects and others with a rigor not authorized by law or justice, or not requisite for the purposes of government.

    ``Sir,'' would he [Seneca] say, ``an emperor mote need Be virtuous and hate tyranny.''
    --Chaucer.

  2. Cruel government or discipline; as, the tyranny of a schoolmaster.

  3. Severity; rigor; inclemency.

    The tyranny of the open night's too rough For nature to endure.
    --Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tyranny

late 14c., "cruel or unjust use of power; the government of a tyrant," from Old French tyranie (13c.), from Late Latin tyrannia "tyranny," from Greek tyrannia "rule of a tyrant, absolute power," from tyrannos "master" (see tyrant).

Wiktionary
tyranny

n. 1 A government in which a single ruler (a tyrant) has absolute power; this system of government. 2 The office or jurisdiction of an absolute ruler. 3 Absolute power, or its use. 4 extreme severity or rigour.

WordNet
tyranny
  1. n. a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) [syn: dictatorship, absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism]

  2. dominance through threat of punishment and violence [syn: absolutism, despotism]

Wikipedia
Tyranny (The Generators album)

Tyranny, released in 2001, is the third album by alternative/ punk rock band, The Generators.

Tyranny (For You)

Tyranny (For You) (written as Tyranny ▶For You◀ on the album artwork) is an album by Front 242, released in 1991. The song "Rhythm of Time" proved a minor hit and became a music video, appearing briefly in the film Single White Female playing on a TV.

Tyranny (Shadow Gallery album)

Tyranny is the third album by the progressive metal group Shadow Gallery, released in 1998 (see 1998 in music). It is the first concept album made by the band, and the story that commences on this album is continued in the album Room V.

Tyranny (disambiguation)

Tyranny refers to a despotically ruled state or society.

Tyranny may also refer to:

  • Tyranny (Julian Casablancas + The Voidz album), 2014
  • Tyranny (Shadow Gallery album), 1998
  • Tyranny (The Generators album), 2001
  • Tyranny (Stabilizers album), 1986
  • Tyranny (For You), album by Front 242
  • Tyranny (TV series), an American drama and political thriller web series
  • Gene Tyranny (born 1945), American composer and musician
  • Tyranny (video game), 2016 role-playing video game by Obsidian Entertainment
Tyranny (Stabilizers album)

Tyranny is the debut studio album of the American pop/rock duo The Stabilizers, released on Columbia Records (CK 40264) in 1986.

Tyranny (Julian Casablancas+The Voidz album)

Tyranny is the first studio album by American band Julian Casablancas+The Voidz, which was released on September 23, 2014 by Casablancas's label, Cult Records. The first single from the album, the 11-minute track "Human Sadness", was released on September 2, 2014. The music video for the second single "Where No Eagles Fly" was directed by guitarist Jeramy "Beardo" Gritter. On September 19, Tyranny was made available to stream on the websites of Rolling Stone and Pitchfork Media.

The album was placed 50th in NME's Top 50 Albums Of 2014 list.

Tyranny (video game)

Tyranny is an upcoming role-playing video game being developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Paradox Interactive, with a planned release for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux in 2016.

Tyranny (TV series)

Tyranny is an American drama and political thriller web series that premiered on March 11, 2010 on KoldCast TV. Written and directed by John Beck Hofmann, the series is centered on a man who, after volunteering for a neurological experiment at UC Berkeley in 1999, finds himself having visions of a troubling future and must understand what the visions mean before that future comes to pass.

Hofmann has said that the movies Twelve Monkeys, The Game, Manchurian Candidate, and Kafka were influences on Tyranny.

Usage examples of "tyranny".

Pender then went on to describe life aboard the ship for all of the hands, pleading with the admiral to intercede and put an end to this tyranny.

The tyranny of Tiberius, Nero, and Domitian, who resided almost constantly at Rome, or in the adjacent was confined to the senatorial and equestrian orders.

As Montaigne and La Boetie were Catholics, it is pertinent here to remark that tyranny produced much the same effect on its victims, whatever their religion.

I was fain to escape from this hell on earth, where I was imprisoned by a most detestable tyranny, and I thought only of forwarding this end, with the resolve to succeed, or at all events not to stop before I came to a difficulty which was insurmountable.

Opposition to his tyranny culminated in 1842 by his dismission from the directorship, Meyerbeer being his successor.

House of Representatives, arose, like the burning bush at the foot of Mount Horeb, and his stentorian voice poured forth such a torrent of denunciation on priest-craft, such a flood of solid swearing against the insolence and tyranny of ecclesiasticism, that people were surprised into inactivity, until Mr.

I pretend to conceal MY purpose here, which is on the invitation of certain distressed patriots of Todos Santos, to assist them in their deliverance from the effete tyranny of the Church and its Government.

My desire is to restore them to the blessings of law and liberty, equally enjoyed by every British subject, which they have fatally and desperately exchanged for all the calamities of war, and the arbitrary tyranny of their chiefs.

This conduct offended me, and I laughed heartily at her contempt, or her designs on me, for as she had not fascinated me at all I was safe from her tyranny.

So that reformers everywhere were eager to hear of a system of voting that would free the electors from the tyranny of parties, and at the same time render a candidate independent of the votes of heckling minorities, and dependent only on the votes of the men who believed in him and his politics.

Republics, on the other hand, had perished by the conflict of liberties and franchises, which, in the absence of all duty hierarchically sanctioned and enforced, had soon become mere tyrannies, rivals one of the other.

The grave senators confessed with a sigh, that, after having long experienced the stern tyranny of their own countrymen, Rome was at length humbled beneath the effeminate luxury of Oriental despotism.

Christian philosophers have found no difficulty in justifying imperialism, war, the capitalistic system, the use of torture, the censorship of the press, and ecclesiastical tyrannies of every sort from the tyranny of Rome to the tyrannies of Geneva and New England.

You are a child of a nation that has bowed beneath the indistinguishable tyrannies of czars, of Party apparatchiks, of elected kleptocrats and their Mafya henchmen.

There are unquestionably thousands of married women whose experience is made a living martyrdom by the infidelity, the tyranny, the coarseness, the general odiousness and wearisomeness of their husbands.