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名詞

tyranness (plural tyrannesses)

1. Obsolete form of tyrantess.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 46:

     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;

参照

• “tyranness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.