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tyrannis Gr. Hist.|tɪˈrænɪs|
[L., a. Gr. τυραννίς rule of a despot.]
= tyranny n. 1. Also transf.
1878T. D. Woolsey Political Science I. ix. 406 His [sc. Plato's] forms of polity..are..aristocracy, timocracy, oligarchy, democracy, and the tyrannis. Oligarchy arises from overgrown wealth, tyrannis from overgrown liberty. 1910Encycl. Brit. XII. 446/2 Between the Roman principate and the Greek tyrannis there are two essential differences. 1920Glasgow Herald 6 Apr. 6 D'Annunzio..proceeded to establish a tyrannis quite on the classical model. |