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- noun Obsolete spelling of
tyranny .
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My only point was just that maybe the concept of tyranny existed before the English word, in the French word "tyrannie", or Latin, or Greek (where it ultimately came from).
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My only point was just that maybe the concept of tyranny existed before the English word, in the French word "tyrannie", or Latin, or Greek (where it ultimately came from).
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My only point was just that maybe the concept of tyranny existed before the English word, in the French word "tyrannie", or Latin, or Greek (where it ultimately came from).
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Mornarch [sic]: And (for his tyrannie, and terrour in warre) was tearmed, The Scourge of God.
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Howbeit he, after he had once attained vnto the kingdome, neglecting the commaundement of his lord, vsurped the gouernment with great tyrannie, committing many heinous crimes, and so he reigned very disorderly for the space of three yeeres.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Pilote for feare of death did, and so by that meanes they were defended from present death, and from the tyrannie of those
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Frenchmen, and their Kings for a spectacle throwen out to wild beasts, he held France it selfe as subiect vnto him: and hauing happily deliuered the Italians from the tyrannie of Maxentius, he preferred three of his mothers vncles, all Britaines, namely,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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These things being thus finished, Godredus returned vnto Man, and began to exercise tyrannie, disinheriting certaine of his nobles, of whome one called
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In the analytical index to the Encyclopédie, the entry for despotisme runs to sixty-one lines; that for tyrannie, to twenty-eight.
DESPOTISM MELVIN RICHTER 1968
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«Une nouvelle tyrannie-celle des bas fonds-s'agite dans les ténèbres, et on croit entendre son grondement lointain. »
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