Dictionary

tyrantship en · NOUN

Etymology

From tyrant + -ship.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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

Relateds

tyrantry · tyrancy