Tyranness vs Tyrantess - What's the difference?
tyranness | tyrantess |
(obsolete) A female tyrant.
* That proud tyranness . — Spenser.
* 1744 : ,
**: From the vulgar croud
Though superstition, tyranness abhorr'd,
The reverence due to this majestic pair
With threats and execration still demands;
(Webster 1913)
A female tyrant.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.6:
*:‘Not by a Tyrant, his intended foe, / But by a Tyrantesse […].’
As nouns the difference between tyranness and tyrantess
is that tyranness is (obsolete) a female tyrant while tyrantess is a female tyrant.tyranness
English
Noun
(es)The Pleasures of the Imagination
Though superstition, tyranness abhorr'd,
The reverence due to this majestic pair
With threats and execration still demands;