Betekenis van:
tyranny
tyranny
Zelfstandig naamwoord
- dwangbestuur; het voortdurend anderen de wil opleggen; alleenheerschappij
- a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Synoniemen
- absolutism
- authoritarianism
- caesarism
- despotism
- dictatorship
- monocracy
- one-man rule
- shogunate
- stalinism
- totalitarianism
Hyperoniemen
Hyponiemen
tyranny
Zelfstandig naamwoord
- regering door een dictator
- a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Synoniemen
- absolutism
- authoritarianism
- caesarism
- despotism
- dictatorship
- monocracy
- one-man rule
- shogunate
- stalinism
- totalitarianism
Hyperoniemen
Hyponiemen
tyranny
Zelfstandig naamwoord
- dictatuur
- a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Synoniemen
- absolutism
- authoritarianism
- caesarism
- despotism
- dictatorship
- monocracy
- one-man rule
- shogunate
- stalinism
- totalitarianism
Hyperoniemen
Hyponiemen
tyranny
Zelfstandig naamwoord
- dominance through threat of punishment and violence
Synoniemen
Hyperoniemen
Voorbeeldzinnen
- People will always resist tyranny.
- Beauty is a short lived tyranny
- The people revolted against the tyranny.
- People in the country were living under a tyranny.
- Free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny.
- The country bear the yoke of tyranny for two decades.
- Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
- Under the reign of tyranny, innocent people were deprived of their citizenship.
- I will be reminded of tyranny and cruelty, if Nero is said.
- Among the people of the colonies suffering under Earth's tyranny a force emerges intending to overthrow the status quo through terrorism.
- Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
- When the bombs fell on our harbor and tyranny threatened the world, she was there to witness a generation rise to greatness, and a democracy was saved. Yes, we can.
- You can choose whatever name you like for the two types of government. I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence "democracy", and the other "tyranny".