Both Uses of
tyranny
in
Jane Eyre
- All John Reed's violent tyrannies, all his sisters' proud indifference, all his mother's aversion, all the servants' partiality, turned up in my disturbed mind like a dark deposit in a turbid well.†
p. 18.4 *
- I was sure St. John Rivers — pure-lived, conscientious, zealous as he was — had not yet found that peace of God which passeth all understanding: he had no more found it, I thought, than had I with my concealed and racking regrets for my broken idol and lost elysium — regrets to which I have latterly avoided referring, but which possessed me and tyrannised over me ruthlessly.†
p. 405.6unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it tyrannize.
Definition:
harsh and unjust rule