Both Uses of
tyranny
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Propensities, tendencies, habits, were as dead leaves upon the tyrannous wind of his imaginative ascendency.†
Chpt 5 *
- She could read character sufficiently well to know by this time that she had nothing to fear from her employer's gallantry; it was rather the tyranny induced by his mortification at Clare's treatment of him.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
harsh and unjust rule