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発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɪɹənəs/

形容詞

tyrannous (comparative more tyrannous, superlative most tyrannous)

1. Tyrannical, despotic or oppressive.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 3, canto 12, page 582:

     […] that Elfe,
     That man and beast with powre imperious
     Subdeweth to his kingdome tyrannous:

   • c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene 3]:

     Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne
     To tyrannous hate!