All 10 Uses
tyranny
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What They Fought For - 1861-1865
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- He was confident that the Confederacy would win this "second War for American Independence" because "Tyranny cannot prosper in the nineteenth century" against "a people fighting for their liberties."†
p. 9.3
- On the Fourth of July the same year, a Kentuckian who had cast his lot with the Confederacy reflected in his diary on George Washington, "who set us an example in bursting the bonds of tyranny" to fight for "those inestimable and priceless rights ...obtained by our forefathers and bequeathed to us."†
p. 9.9
- In a letter written three months before he was killed at Chancellorsville, this soldier explained to his father that he considered the war "a struggle between Liberty on one side, and Tyranny on the other."†
p. 11.2
- "bursting the bonds of tyranny," and the like, may come across to this post-Freudian age as mawkish posturing, romantic sentimentalism, hollow platitudes.†
p. 12.9 *
- The proportion that discoursed in more depth on ideological issues such as liberty, constitutional rights, resistance to tyranny, and so on was smaller-40 percent.†
p. 14.1
- The concepts of southern nationalism, liberty, self-government, resistance to tyranny, and other ideological purposes I quoted earlier all have a rather abstract quality.†
p. 18.2
- Confederate soldiers' letters and diaries continued in 1864 and even into 1865 to abound with such expressions as this "gigantic struggle for liberty," for "the great Democratic principles of States' Rights and States' Sovereignty," for "the dear rights of freemen" against "tyranny and oppression," a cause "made a thousand times dearer by the sacrifice it has cost and is costing us."†
p. 25.1
- A Louisiana cavalryman believed that a Yankee triumph would be "more galling in its tyranny than the darkest horror under which Ireland or Poland has ever groaned," and a Mississippi officer feared it would mean descent "to a depth of degredation immeasurably below that of the Helots of Greece."†
p. 25.4
- If "traitors be allowed to overthrow and break asunder ties most sacred—costing our forefathers long years of blood and toil," agreed a Connecticut enlisted man in 1863, then "all the hope and confidence of the world in the capacity of men for self government will be lost ...and perhaps be followed by a long night of tyranny."†
p. 30.9
- A twenty-three-year-old printer from Philadelphia, a private in the 71st Pennsylvania wounded while helping to repel Pickett's assault at Gettysburg, wrote to his father that any sacrifice was worth the cost, "for what is home with all its endearments, if we have not a country freed from every vestige of the anarchy, and the tyrannical and blood thirsty despotism which threatens on every side to overwhelm us?"†
p. 33.1tyrannical = harsh and unjust
Definitions:
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(1)
(tyranny) harsh and unjust rule
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)