- Look up
tyrant in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
tyrant (from
Ancient Gr**** τύραννος (túrannos) 'absolute ruler'), in the
modern English usage of the...
- Kryštof Šov of
Helfenburg and his
companion Švejkar
settled in it to
tyrannize the
villagers in the
surrounding countryside,
before the
people of Görlitz...
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Confucianism was a
shadow of its
noble origin,
being now a tool of the Qing to
tyrannize Han people,
libraries of the
Confucian monasteries were destro****—in the...
- The
Wicked Witch was a middle-aged,
malevolent woman who
conquered and
tyrannized the
Munchkin Country in Oz's
eastern quadrant,
forcing the
native Munchkins...
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domesticated and
constrained by
modesty and shame, he
feared "men
would be
tyrannized by
women ... For,
given the ease with
which women arouse men's senses—men...
- not
having their duty to the
people duly
before them, may
attempt to
tyrannize, and as the
military forces which must be
occasionally raised to defend...
-
gradually other hypotheses emerged.
Louis Bazin derived it from
Turkic qas- ("
tyrannize, oppress, terrorize") on the
basis of its
phonetic similarity to the Uyğur...
- may have
troops in time of peace. They may be
billeted in any manner—to
tyrannize, oppress, and
crush us." In the 1st
United States Congress, following...
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uncontrollable and "prodigal
beyond measure,"
cannot be
tyrannized over in the way
Stoics tyrannize over themselves. Further,
there are
forceful attacks...
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subject of
serious discussion.
Although the work
advises princes how to
tyrannize,
Machiavelli is
generally thought to have
preferred some form of republican...
