tyrantship
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]tyrantship (countable and uncountable, plural tyrantships)
- The condition of being a tyrant; tyranny.
- 1864, The Monthly Religious Magazine, volume 32, page 168:
- Since that time, he has been as devoted a slave to her tyrantship as any of us; and that's saying a great deal.
- 1982, Graham Anderson, Eros Sophistes: Ancient Novelists at Play, page 15:
- The suitors are just as delightfully and professionally evil: the tyrant of Agrigentum points out as an objective fact that they obtain their tyrantships by underhand villainy (πανουργία) rather than by force.