tyranness

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English

Noun

tyranness (plural tyrannesses)

Obsolete form of tyrantess.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 46:
  that proud tyranness
- 1744, Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of the Imagination‎:
  From the vulgar croud
  Though superstition, tyranness abhorr'd,
  The reverence due to this majestic pair
  With threats and execration still demands;

References

“tyranness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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