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tyrantess

English

Etymology

From tyrant +? -ess.

Noun

tyrantess (plural tyrantesses)

  1. A female tyrant.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.6:
      Not by a Tyrant, his intended foe, / But by a Tyrantesse []

Synonyms

  • tyranness

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tyranness

English

Etymology

tyrant +? -ess

Noun

tyranness (plural tyrannesses)

  1. (obsolete) A female tyrant.
    • 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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