Tyranny is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TYRANNY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the rule of a tyrant
• cruel and oppressive government or rule
• a state under cruel and oppressive government.
• cruel, unreasonable, or arbitrary use of power or control
• (especially in ancient Greece) rule by one who has absolute power without legal right.
• tyrannical rule
• The government or authority of a tyrant; a country governed by an absolute ruler; hence, arbitrary or despotic exercise of power; exercise of power over subjects and others with a rigor not authorized by law or justice, or not requisite for the purposes of government.
• Cruel government or discipline; as, the tyranny of a schoolmaster.
• Severity; rigor; inclemency.
• a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
• dominance through threat of punishment and violence

Words related to TYRANNY

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How to use TYRANNY in a sentence

• The reformation of Luther was a grand protest against spiritual tyranny.
• It is evident that the Senate must be first corrupted before it can attempt an establishment of tyranny.
• Moral law, accompanied by the sanction of power, and imposed by outside authority, he rejected as a form of tyranny.
• Cleanliness and frugality in Remedios took the form of unendurable tyranny.
• It is not to be endured that falsehood and tyranny should reign for ever.
• On every side the flame of oppression and tyranny can be discerned.
• If it had included Ireland some one might have made the accusation of tyranny.
• For the colonists it meant nothing more than change of one tyranny for another, since the local government in Virginia was made the rule of an absolute governor.
• When he arrived at Cadiz, these same Spaniards, who were a few years after destined to give so great an example, paid every possible homage to a victim of tyranny.
• I was the victim of a tyranny, which, in the end, made me too a tyrant.
• Without shedding of innocent blood there is no remission of sins through tyranny and greed.
• Certainly they had arrived at the moment most psychologically favorable for the beginning of an odd sort of tyranny that followed.
• If foreign troops should be furnished, it would be most probably by the King of Prussia, who seems to offer himself as the bull-dog of tyranny to all his neighbors.
• Accordingly, he exercised his tyranny upon him with redoubled rigour, until the poor creature expired, in consequence of the inhuman treatment he had sustained.
• Still more terrible was the tyranny they exerted on the superstitious minds of the masses.
• The tyrant was removed, but the tyranny is with us still.
• So, instead of spending my strength quarreling with the hand, I would strike for the heart of that great tyranny.
• All this was repeated and repeated, till the dull monotony of tyranny began to wear through the long Teutonic patience to the under-quick of Wendish madness.
• Hence would arise tyranny on the one side, and a sense of injury on the other.
• THE FLOWER There is a form of oppression that has not until now been confessed by those who suffer from it or who are participants, as mere witnesses, in its tyranny.
• But the ninth year marks the establishment of the ascendancy of AElius Sejanus over the mind of the emperor, whereby his sway was transformed into a foul tyranny.
• But as one act of tyranny succeeded another, other colonies fell into line.
• It is, in truth, nothing more than the old, and, as I thought, exploded problem of tyranny, which proposes to beggar its subjects into submission.
• A new tyranny, blood-thirsty, cruel, and built on war, forced itself forward in the Niger delta.

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