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tyrannophiles

tyrannophiles is the plural of tyrannophile.

Meaning of tyrannophile

Noun

tyrannophile (plural tyrannophiles)

  1. One who supports dictatorship.
    • In the first book of the Republic, Socrates' claim that justice “pays” is challenged by the hot-tempered Thrasymachus, a rhetorician and tyrannophile.2011, George Klosko, The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy, →ISBN, page 101

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Questions about tyrannophiles

What is tyrannophiles the plural of?
Tyrannophiles is the plural of tyrannophile.

Words near tyrannophiles in the dictionary

  1. tyrannizes
  2. tyrannizing
  3. tyrannizingly
  4. tyranno-
  5. tyrannophile
  6. tyrannophiles
  7. tyrannophilia
  8. tyrannophilic
  9. tyrannophobe
  10. tyrannophobes
  11. tyrannophobia

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