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The U.S. constitution was designed with checks and balances and limited government to protect Americans from tyranny.tyranny = a form of government where some people control others in a harsh, unfair manner
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Pure democracy (without protection of minority rights) can become tyranny of the majority.
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For some reason, my first year of school had wrought a great change in our relationship: Calpurnia's tyranny, unfairness, and meddling in my business had faded to gentle grumblings of general disapproval. (source)tyranny = harsh control
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It has been horrid---the tyranny we've suffered at the hands of that woman! (source)tyranny = harsh and unjust rule
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Because Burke had defended the British monarchy, Dad would have said he was an agent of tyranny.† (source)
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That is the other side of selflessness: its tyranny.† (source)
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Evans raised a fist and shouted at the crowd, "Eliminate human tyranny!"† (source)
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Liesel only knew that Arthur Berg did not have a tyrannical bone in his body, whereas the new leader had hundreds of them.† (source)tyrannical = harsh and unjust
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The police had questioned him several times, and just a few days before, he had heard that an influential acquaintance, a Mr Tanaka a retired officer of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha steamship line, an anti-Christian, a man famous in Hiroshima for his showy philanthropies and notorious for his personal tyrannies, had been telling people that Tanimoto should not be trusted.† (source)
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You, my Lord, In being with us, would fight a good stroke At once, for England and for Home, Ending the tyrannous jurisdiction Of king's court over bishop's court, Of king's court over baron's court.† (source)
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He says I have tyrannized over everyone.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
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There was bad luck even in the weather, which turned cool and rainy toward the last; and rather than stay in where she could lay hands on me and carry on and tyrannize, I stuck around the amusement park at Silver Beach, where the seats of the Ferris wheel were covered, getting blackened, and I got soaked through my raincoat (from the old times and not up to my recenter elegance).† (source)
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AND CAN I THEN BUT PRAY OTHERS MAY NEVER FEEL TYRANNIC SWAY?† (source)
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It said that our state was a poor state, and could not bear the burden thus tyrannically imposed upon it.† (source)tyrannically = in a harsh and unjust manner
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In the first place, by then I was incapable of love, for I repeat, with me loving meant tyrannising and showing my moral superiority.† (source)unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it tyrannize.
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And, above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind.† (source)
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