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tyranness

tyranness is the obsolete form of tyrantess.

Meaning of tyrantess

Noun

tyrantess (plural tyrantesses)

  1. A female tyrant.
    • Not by a Tyrant, his intended foe, / But by a Tyrantesse […]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of tyranness

pluraltyrannesses

Origin of tyranness

From tyrant + -ess.

Questions about tyranness

What is tyranness the obsolete form of?
Tyranness is the obsolete form of tyrantess.

Words near tyranness in the dictionary

  1. tyramines
  2. tyran
  3. tyrancy
  4. tyranfish
  5. tyranned
  6. tyranness
  7. tyrannesses
  8. tyrannial
  9. tyrannic
  10. tyrannical
  11. tyrannical sadism

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