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.
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