All 3 Uses
tyranny
in
King Lear
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- I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny; who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.†
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- Here is the place, my lord; good my lord, enter: The tyranny of the open night's too rough For nature to endure.†
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- Go in with me: my duty cannot suffer To obey in all your daughters' hard commands; Though their injunction be to bar my doors, And let this tyrannous night take hold upon you, Yet have I ventur'd to come seek you out And bring you where both fire and food is ready.†
Scene 3.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(tyranny) harsh and unjust rule
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)