tyraunt
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tyraunt (plural tyraunts)
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Etymology edit
From Old French tirant, tyrant, tiran, from Latin tyrannus, from Ancient Greek τύραννος (túrannos).
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Noun edit
tyraunt (plural tyrauntis)
- An absolute monarch; one who rules in despotism.
- 1297, Robert of Gloucester, Chronicle, published 7689:
- To hom þat wolde is wille do debonere he was & milde & to hom þat wiþsede strong tirant & wilde.
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- c. 1340, Richard Rolle, Psalter, XXXII 10:
- Princes, þat is,... tirauntis of þis warld.
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- c. 1374, Geoffrey Chaucer translating Boëthius, De Consolatione Philosophiæ, III v 59:
- A tyraunt þat was kyng of sysile.
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- 1382, Wycliffe's Bible, Dan. 1:3:
- The sonys of Yrael, and of the kyngus bloode, and the children of tyrauntis.
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- A monarch who is evil, merciless, or unfair.
- c. 1290, in the South-English Legendary (MS Laud 108), I 128:
- Ore louerd helpe nouþe seint thomas : for oþur frend nath he non, / A-mong so manie tyraunz for-to come: þat weren alle is fon!
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- c. 1330, Robert Mannyng, Chronicle, section 51:
- A bastard no kyngdom suld hald Bot if þat he it wan... Of tirant or of Sarazin.
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- 1377, William Langland, Piers Plowman, I 199:
- Attache þo tyrauntz...And fettereth fast falsenesse...And gurdeth of gyles hed.
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- c. 1471, John Fortescue, Works, section 453:
- Whan a Kyng rulith his Realme onely to his own profytt, and not to the good of his Subgetts, he ys a Tyraunte.
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- c. 1290, in the South-English Legendary (MS Laud 108), I 128:
- A ruler who takes over a nation or usurps.
- One who suppresses or oppresses the followers of a creed.
- A scoundrel or malfeasant; one who is merciless, unfair, or evil.
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References edit
- “tī̆raunt, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-21.
Adjective edit
tyraunt
Descendants edit
- English: tyrant
References edit
- “tī̆raunt, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-21.