Antonyms for tyranny
ˈtɪr ə nityran·ny

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1. tyranny

   Antonyms:
   freedom, independence, humanity, clemency, constitutionalism

   Synonyms:
   despotism, inclemency, persecution, autocracy

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1. • Autocracy

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1. dictatorship, absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyrannynoun

   a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)

   Synonyms:
   shogunate, totalism, dictatorship, authoritarianism, one-man rule, absolutism, despotism, monocracy, totalitarianism

2. absolutism, tyranny, despotismnoun

   dominance through threat of punishment and violence

   Synonyms:
   shogunate, totalism, dictatorship, authoritarianism, one-man rule, absolutism, despotism, monocracy, totalitarianism

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1. tyrannynoun

   Synonyms:
   despotism, absolutism, oppression, rigor, severity

How to use tyranny in a sentence?

1. Edmund Burke:

   The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

2. Thor Halvorssen:

   El Sexto has become a prominent target of the Cuban regime because his graffiti art is one of the elite’s most feared methods of protest as it exposes their true nature, el Sexto’s art unmasks the tyranny in ways white papers and press accounts cannot. Now that Castro will receive a pompous farewell, the regime will take measures to silence all voices for democracy and to drown out calls for reform.

3. Henry Fielding:

   Where the law ends tyranny begins.

4. Malcolm X:

   Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression.

5. Thomas Paine:

   This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; and it is so far true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still.

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