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tyrantship

tyrantship noun: the condition of being a tyrant; tyranny.

Noun

tyrantship (countable and uncountable, plural tyrantships)

  1. The condition of being a tyrant; tyranny.
    • Since that time, he has been as devoted a slave to her tyrantship as any of us; and that's saying a great deal.1864, The Monthly Religious Magazine, volume 32, page 168
    • The suitors are just as delightfully and professionally evil: the tyrant of Agrigentum points out as an objective fact that they obtain their tyrantships by underhand villainy (πανουργία) rather than by force.1982, Graham Anderson, Eros Sophistes: Ancient Novelists at Play, page 15

Forms of tyrantship

pluraltyrantships

Origin of tyrantship

From tyrant + -ship.

Questions about tyrantship

What does tyrantship mean?
Tyrantship means the condition of being a tyrant; tyranny.
What part of speech is tyrantship?
Tyrantship is a noun.
What is the plural of tyrantship?
The plural of tyrantship is tyrantships.

Words near tyrantship in the dictionary

  1. tyrantless
  2. tyrantlike
  3. tyrantries
  4. tyrantry
  5. tyrants
  6. tyrantship
  7. tyrantships
  8. tyrase
  9. tyraunt
  10. tyraunts
  11. tyrbe

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