- Look up
tyrant in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
tyrant (from
Ancient Gr**** τύραννος (túrannos) 'absolute ruler'), in the
modern English usage of the...
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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...
- friend. In the epic,
Enkidu is
created as a
rival to king Gilgamesh, who
tyrannizes his people, but they
become friends and
together slay the
monster Humbaba...
- 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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gradually other hypotheses emerged.
Louis Bazin derived it from
Turkic qas- ("
tyrannize, oppress, terrorize") on the
basis of its
phonetic similarity to the Uyğur...
- 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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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...
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darkened their skin color. Rush drew the
conclusion that "whites
should not
tyrannize over [blacks], for
their disease should entitle them to a
double portion...
- in
Broken Lance (1954) in
which a
cattle baron pla**** by
Spencer Tracy tyrannizes his
three sons, and only the youngest, Joe, pla**** by
Robert Wagner, remains...
- 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...
