tyrannophile

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English

Etymology

From tyranno- +‎ -phile.

Noun

tyrannophile (plural tyrannophiles)

  1. One who supports dictatorship.
    • 2011, George Klosko, The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy, →ISBN, page 101:
      In the first book of the Republic, Socrates' claim that justice “pays” is challenged by the hot-tempered Thrasymachus, a rhetorician and tyrannophile.
    • 2014, Frank Vatai, Intellectuals in Politics in the Greek World, →ISBN:
      This was the beginning of a rearguard action on Plato's part to salvage his reputation, which was to culminate in the Seventh and Eighth Epistles, apologiae pro vita sua, from there to blend into the favourable tradition of Plato's life and personality, waging war down to the present against the unfavourable accounts of Plato the tyrannophile and Plato the political idiot.
    • 2018, Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, →ISBN:
      Some tyrannophiles were Marxists, working on the time-honored principle "He may be an SOB, but he's our SOB."

Adjective

tyrannophile (comparative more tyrannophile, superlative most tyrannophile)

  1. Synonym of tyrannophilic
    • 1969, Talanta - Volumes 1-5, page 78:
      ... (c) that this "somebody" must have been completely out of his mind if he had celebrated the merits of H. and A. among an exclusively tyrannophile demos and (d) that crowds easily change their political allegiance when attractive alternatives present themselves.
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