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Tyran(d)ry, Tirranry(e, n. Also: tyrandrie, -ye, tyrranry, -ie, terandry. [ME and e.m.E. tyrauntyre (14th c.), tyrauntry (Rolle), tirauntrie (Wyclif), tirrantrie (a1387), terrandry (a1400-50), tyranrie (c1449), tyrandry (Cath. Angl.); Tyran(d n.] = Tyran(n)y n. in senses 1 and 2.(1) c1420 Wynt. v 571.
Nero … fra he kend hym empryowre … excedyt all mesoure, And worschype chawngyd in tyrandry [C. terandry c1420 Wynt. v 3796.
The byschope … Sayd, ‘Thi presens certanly Is all lyk till tyrandry: Thow mays thé agayne God to wede, And to supprys hys law … ' ‘Nay,’ he sayis, ‘on na kyn wys Thynk I agayne that law to rys c1420 Wynt. vii 3398 (W).
This King Edward wickitly His prinsheid changeit in tyrandry a1500 Bk. Chess 1541.
Denys the king With tyrandrye in Cecile schupe to ryng c1515 Asl. MS I 190/23.
This fals Brettonnis … bure by Mordred thair richtuis aire & werray wndowtable king, the quhilk Mordred, quhen Arthour was out of the cuntre in his tyrandry he gadderit all the estatis and Scottis men to Londoun & schew thaim his richt(b) c1475 Wall. vii 180.
Terandry(c) 1549 Compl. 75/27.
Anthiocus Kyng of Sirrie, be vsurpatione ande tirranrye, subdeuit the cuntre of Juda c1552 Lynd. Mon. 2020.
Nynus … gadtherit … ane gret armie Contrare Babilone … Quhowbeit he had thareto no rycht, Bot, by his tyrranry and mycht, … His conquessing thus he began c1552 Lynd. Mon. 2171.
Tyrranrie(2) c1420 Wynt. v 586.
But pety tharefor, or mercy, He slwe hyr in hys tyrandry c1420 Ratis R. 92.
Quhay-so lewys viciously In wykytnes and terandry c1475 Wall. vii 737.
Makfadȝane Off Scottis men … had slayne mony ane … Off tyrandry King Eduuard thocht him gud a1499 Contempl. Sinn. 147. (Asl.)
But iustice kyngdomes tornes in tyrandrie(b) c1475 Wall. ix 206.
Thar wes few our power mycht withstand. In tyranry thus haiff we rongyn lang 1533 Bell. Livy I 17/5.
The preis and violence of tyranny [v.r. tirranry] was mare pussant in this mater than ony reuerence of age or faderly piete