Tyranny vs. Corruption — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Tyranny and Corruption
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Tyranny
Cruel and oppressive government or rule
Refugees fleeing tyranny and oppression
Corruption
Corruption, as it is defined by the World Bank, is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense which is undertaken by a person or an organization which is entrusted with a position of authority, in order to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's private gain. Corruption may involve many activities which include bribery and embezzlement, and it may also involve practices which are legal in many countries.
Tyranny
Unjust or oppressive governmental power
"He tended to see the Crown as the benign center of the empire and Parliament as the malevolent source of tyranny" (Gordon S. Wood).
Corruption
The act or process of corrupting.
Tyranny
A government in which a single ruler is vested with absolute power
People liberated from a brutal tyranny.
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Corruption
The state of being corrupt.
Tyranny
The office, authority, or jurisdiction of an absolute ruler
Pisistratus held the tyranny of Athens.
Corruption
Decay; rot.
Tyranny
The oppressive or unjust use of power
Parental tyranny.
Corruption
The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity
Tyranny
A tyrannical act
Refused to submit to her husband's tyrannies.
Corruption
The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.
Tyranny
An oppressive or harshly limiting condition
The tyranny of social expectations.
Corruption
The product of corruption; putrid matter.
Tyranny
A government in which a single ruler (a tyrant) has absolute power; this system of government.
Corruption
The decomposition of biological matter.
Tyranny
The office or jurisdiction of an absolute ruler.
Corruption
Unethical administrative or executive practices (in government or business), including bribery (offering or receiving bribes), conflicts of interest, nepotism, and so on.
Tyranny
Absolute power, or its use.
Corruption
(computing) The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media.
Tyranny
A system of government in which power is exercised on behalf of the ruler or ruling class, without regard to the wishes of the governed.
Corruption
The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct.
A corruption of style
Corruption of innocence
Tyranny
Extreme severity or rigour.
Corruption
(usage prescription) A nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, assigned a value judgment as being debased, especially when resulting from misunderstanding, transcription error, or mishearing.
Tyranny
The government or authority of a tyrant; a country governed by an absolute ruler; hence, arbitrary or despotic exercise of power; exercise of power over subjects and others with a rigor not authorized by law or justice, or not requisite for the purposes of government.
"Sir," would he [Seneca] say, "an emperor mote needBe virtuous and hate tyranny."
Corruption
Something originally good or pure that has turned evil or impure; a perversion.
Tyranny
Cruel government or discipline; as, the tyranny of a schoolmaster.
Corruption
The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.
The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to "generation".
Tyranny
Severity; rigor; inclemency.
The tyranny of the open night's too roughFor nature to endure.
Corruption
The product of corruption; putrid matter.
Tyranny
A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Corruption
The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery.
It was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries, . . . to exite popular indignation against them.
They abstained from some of the worst methods of corruption usual to their party in its earlier days.
Tyranny
Dominance through threat of punishment and violence
Corruption
The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct; as, a corruption of style; corruption in language.
Corruption of blood can be removed only by act of Parliament.
Corruption
Lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain
Corruption
In a state of progressive putrefaction
Corruption
Decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)
Corruption
Moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles;
The luxury and corruption among the upper classes
Moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration
Its brothels; its opium parlors; its depravity
Corruption
Destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity;
Corruption of a minor
The big city's subversion of rural innocence
Corruption
Inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony);
He was held on charges of corruption and racketeering
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