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"cruel and oppressive government or rule." is the Oxford English Dictionary definition of tyrrany.
by sumthinprofound 5y ago
"cruel and oppressive government or rule." is the Oxford English Dictionary definition of tyrrany.
- roenxi 5y agoCuriously, Webster's [0] doesn't include the word cruel. Possibly the Americans and the British use the word differently. I suspect the British are working around the fact that they have a monarch; the US definition is closer to my understanding of the original Greek tyrants. [0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tyranny https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tyranny