- Look up
tyrant in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
tyrant (from
Ancient Gr**** τύραννος (túrannos) 'absolute ruler'), in the
modern English usage of 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...
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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...
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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...
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describes it as “excavat(ing) the
arcane kingdom of the
human psyche, so long
tyrannized by the
repressive and
oppressive forces of socialization." She has exhibited...
- 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...
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Aristotle criticized democratic rule as the
numerically preponderant poor
tyrannizing the rich.
Instead of
seeing it as a fair
system under which everyone...
- Rosenfeld,
Sophie (2014-06-03). "Free to Choose?: How
Americans have
become tyrannized by the culture's
overinvestment in choice". The
Nation (June 23–30, 2014 ed...
