tyranness en · NOUN
Etymology
From tyrant + -ess.
Meanings
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(alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete form of tyrantess.
alt of tyrantess
that proud tyranness
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 46:From the vulgar croud Though superstition, tyranness abhorr'd, The reverence due to this majestic pair With threats and execration still demands;
1744, Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of the Imagination:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| tyrannesses | Number=Plur | lexicographic |