0 a ruler who has unlimited power over other people, and uses it unfairly and cruelly -- 暴君；暴虐的人；專橫的人
If she is guilty, so was her tyrant-victim.
On the evidence of this volume the fourteenth century was indeed not a propitious period for would-be tyrants.
In our case, how did the rapacious tyrant arrange the theft?
Should a ruler become a tyrant, he could be overthrown by force.
For this, they were either praised as mighty emperors or stigmatized as tyrants.
Instead, he is replaced by the modern character of the tyrant, the martyr, the courtier.
There are many good countertenors now, but the colour of the voice makes the proposition of countertenor tyrants challenging.
And they preach unashamedly that the poor man should submit to the skinning and fleecing which the tyrants have prepared for him.
