Obs. Also 4 tyrauntyre, 4–5 tir-, tyra(u)ntry, -ie, -ye, -e(e, 5 tyraunterie, terawatrye; 4–5 ter(r)andry, 5 tyrandry, -ie; tyranry, -ie. [f. TYRANT + -RY. [f. TYRANT + -RY. Cf. OF. tirannerie.] = TYRANNY (in various senses).
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P. (Morris), B. 187. Traysoun, & trichcherye, & tyrauntyre boþe.
c. 1340. Richard Rolle of Hampole, Prick of Conscience, 1601. Now es luff turned tyll lychery, And ryghtwisnes tyll tyrauntry.
1382. Wyclif, Prol. Bible, iii. 4. The persecucioun and tirauntrie of Farao.
a. 1387. in Archæologia, XVI. 83. His extorciones & his mayntenances and his tirranttrie of þat he hath take falsly ageyne þe Kynges lawes.
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 4251. Þi [Alexander’s] tent is all on terrandry & tourment of armys.
1435. Misyn, Fire of Love, I. xxxi. 68. Slike forsoth,… be power of þer tyrantry þe smale oppres.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., III. iv. (Rolls), 302. Into the avail of the vndirlingis; and not … by tyranrie into the avail oonli of the oucrers.
c. 1470. Henry, Wallace, IX. 206. In tyranry thus haiff we rongyn lang.
1483. Cath. Angl., 389/1. Tyrandry, tirannides.
1496. Dives & Paup. (W. de W.), I. lix. 100/2. Neyther they myght ne durste make suche solempnyte for tyrauntrye of the hethen people.
