tyrantship
nounEtymology From tyrant + -ship.
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The condition of being a tyrant; tyranny.
- Since that time, he has been as devoted a slave to her tyrantship as any of us; and that's saying a great deal.1864, The Monthly Religious Magazine, volume 32, page 168:
- 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.1982, Graham Anderson, Eros Sophistes: Ancient Novelists at Play, page 15: