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“tyrannies”
1. Absolute power arbitrarily or unjustly administered; despotism: Certain forms of tyranny can be exemplified by Stalinism, Caesarism, or by a police state.
2. An arbitrarily cruel exercise of power; Mr. Bad's behavior and treatment of his family could be described as a forma of tyranny because he was brutal, dictatorial, harsh, severe, and rough.
3. In Greek history, the office or the administration of a tyrant: The government by a usuper was a kind of tyranny.
4. Etymology: from Old French tyrannie, from Late Latin tyrannia, "tyranny"; which came from Greek tyrannia, from tyrannos, "master, tyrant".
2. An arbitrarily cruel exercise of power; Mr. Bad's behavior and treatment of his family could be described as a forma of tyranny because he was brutal, dictatorial, harsh, severe, and rough.
3. In Greek history, the office or the administration of a tyrant: The government by a usuper was a kind of tyranny.
4. Etymology: from Old French tyrannie, from Late Latin tyrannia, "tyranny"; which came from Greek tyrannia, from tyrannos, "master, tyrant".
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