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tetolliniliztli.

Headword: 
tetolliniliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

oppression (see Reyes García in the attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

aocmo yuhqui quichihuaz tetolliniliztli tepinauhtiliztli yn temecahuitequiliztli = No longer was he to perform such mistreatment, shaming, and lashings (central Mexico, 1612)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 198–199.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Au in conpeuhqui yn tetolliniliztli quin ihcuac yn mexicatl oquimontlatocatlallico yn Totomochtzin yuan yn Cuitlauatzin = Y empezó la opresión apenas cuando el mexica puso como tlahtoani a Totomochtzin y a Cuitlauatzin.
Luis Reyes García, Documentos sobre tierras y señoríos en Cuauhtinchan (México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1988), 87.