tyranness

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Noun

tyranness (plural tyrannesses)

1. (obsolete) A female tyrant.

   • 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;

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