Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Old spellings of tyrant, tyrantry.
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¶ A narracion historicall vpon kyng Ri - chard the third, the cruell tiraunt [.] [Sidenote: The persone [.]]
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¶ A chylde yet scante .vii. yere olde, whose honeste parentes had done good to his master, they handled so cruellye, that scarse anye suche tiraunt as was
The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus 1502
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