tyraunt

English

Noun

tyraunt (plural tyraunts)

  1. Obsolete form of tyrant.

Middle English

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Etymology

From Old French tirant, tyrant, tiran, from Latin tyrannus, from Ancient Greek τύραννος (túrannos).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtiːrau̯nt/, /ˈtiːrant/, /ˈtirant/, /ˈtirau̯nt/, /-an/

Noun

tyraunt (plural tyrauntis)

  1. An absolute monarch; one who rules in despotism.
    • 1297, Robert of Gloucester, Chronicle, 7689:
      To hom þat wolde is wille do debonere he was & milde & to hom þat wiþsede strong tirant & wilde.
    • c. 1340, Richard Rolle, Psalter, XXXII 10:
      Princes, þat is,... tirauntis of þis warld.
    • c. 1374, Geoffrey Chaucer translating Boëthius, De consolatione philosophiæ, III v 59:
      A tyraunt þat was kyng of sysile.
    • 1382, Wycliffe's Bible, Dan. 1:3:
      The sonys of Yrael, and of the kyngus bloode, and the children of tyrauntis.
  2. A monarch who is evil, merciless, or unfair.
    • c. 1290, in the South-English Legendary (MS Laud 108), I 128:
      Ore louerd helpe nouþe seint thomas : for oþur frend nath he non, / A-mong so manie tyraunz for-to come: þat weren alle is fon!
    • c. 1330, Robert Mannyng, Chronicle, 51:
      A bastard no kyngdom suld hald Bot if þat he it wan... Of tirant or of Sarazin.
    • 1377, William Langland, Piers Plowman, I 199:
      Attache þo tyrauntz...And fettereth fast falsenesse...And gurdeth of gyles hed.
    • c. 1471, John Fortescue, Works, 453:
      Whan a Kyng rulith his Realme onely to his own profytt, and not to the good of his Subgetts, he ys a Tyraunte.
  3. A ruler who takes over a nation or usurps.
  4. One who suppresses or oppresses the followers of a creed.
  5. A scoundrel or malfeasant; one who is merciless, unfair, or evil.

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Adjective

tyraunt

  1. Relating to a tyrant.
  2. Tyrannical, harsh.

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