tyraunt – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of tyraunt

Noun: tyraunt
Sg.tyraunt
Pl.tyrauntis

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • To hom þat wolde is wille do debonere he was & milde & to hom þat wiþsede strong tirant & wilde. [1297, Robert of Gloucester, Chronicle, published 7689:]
  • Princes, þat is,... tirauntis of þis warld. [c. 1340, Richard Rolle, Psalter, XXXII 10:]
  • c. 1374, Geoffrey Chaucer translating Boëthius, De Consolatione Philosophiæ, III v 59 ((please add an English translation of this quotation))
  • 1382, Wycliffe's Bible, Dan. 1:3 ((please add an English translation of this quotation))
  • c. 1290, in the South-English Legendary (MS Laud 108), I 128 ((please add an English translation of this quotation))
  • A bastard no kyngdom suld hald Bot if þat he it wan... Of tirant or of Sarazin. [c. 1330, Robert Mannyng, Chronicle, section 51:]
  • Attache þo tyrauntz...And fettereth fast falsenesse...And gurdeth of gyles hed. [1377, William Langland, Piers Plowman, I 199:]
  • Whan a Kyng rulith his Realme onely to his own profytt, and not to the good of his Subgetts, he ys a Tyraunte. [c. 1471, John Fortescue, Works, section 453:]

Nouns inflected like tyraunt

berkyng, scherer, parissh prest, collyng, garth, thost, watir, kex, stynk, suger lof, eggyng, reredos, tyraunt, lether, tablement, fesaunt, fischer, verset, metropol, heft, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Old French tirant, tyrant, tiran, from Latin tyrannus, from Ancient Greek τύραννος (túrannos). See: Latin Nouns 'tyrannus', Ancient Greek Nouns 'τύραννος'.

Verbs referencing "tyraunt"

English Nouns tyrant.

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