tyranness

tyranness (plural tyrannesses)

1. 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;

• tyranness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913