tyranness

English

Etymology

tyrant +‎ -ess

Noun

tyranness (plural tyrannesses)

  1. (obsolete) A female tyrant.
    • Edmund Spenser
      that proud tyranness
    • 1744: Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of the Imagination
      • From the vulgar croud
        Though superstition, tyranness abhorr'd,
        The reverence due to this majestic pair
        With threats and execration still demands;

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tyranness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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