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Tyranny meaning: 1. Government by a ruler or small group of people who have unlimited power over the people in their. Cambridge Dictionary +Plus; My profile. You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Treating people or animals badly. Find 646 synonyms for tyranny and other similar words that you can use instead based on 8 separate contexts from our thesaurus.
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They used it as a battering ram with which to demolish the citadel of the oligarchs, and when their end had been achieved they hastily abandoned the weapon which wounded their hands.' Thus Gustav Glotz,(1) whose view found favour with de Ste Croix.(2) He too concluded with appeal to Aristotle, who in a famous passage(3) declared that unlike monarchy, which arises to help 'the great and good' (GREEK TEXT OMITTED) against the People, and the monarch who is appointed as one of 'the great and good', 'the tyrant comes from the People and the multitude to confront the men of note (GREEK TEXT OMITTED) and prevent the People being unjustly treated by them.
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