tyrantship

English

Etymology

From tyrant +‎ -ship.

Noun

tyrantship (countable and uncountable, plural tyrantships)

1. The condition of being a tyrant; tyranny.
   • 1864, The Monthly Religious Magazine, volume 32, page 168:

     Since that time, he has been as devoted a slave to her tyrantship as any of us; and that's saying a great deal.

   • 1982, Graham Anderson, Eros Sophistes: Ancient Novelists at Play, page 15:

     The suitors are just as delightfully and professionally evil: the tyrant of Agrigentum points out as an objective fact that they obtain their tyrantships by underhand villainy (πανουργία) rather than by force.

Related terms

• tyrancy
• tyrantry