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Tyrannous

adjective
1.
Marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior.  Synonyms: oppressive, tyrannical.  "Oppressive laws" , "A tyrannical parent" , "Tyrannous disregard of human rights"






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"Tyrannous" Quotes from Famous Books



... the quest and the journeyings of the heroes, and of their toils in the swift contests, and how she had sinned through the counsels of her much-sorrowing sister, and how with the sons of Phrixus she had fled afar from the tyrannous horrors of her father; but she shrank from telling of the murder of Apsyrtus. Yet she escaped not Circe's ken; nevertheless, in spite of all she pitied the weeping maiden, and ...
— The Argonautica • Apollonius Rhodius

... winged God himself Came riding on a lion ravenous, Taught to obey the menage of that elfe That man and beast with power imperious Subdueth to his kingdom tyrannous: His blindfold eyes he bade awhile unbind, That his proud spoil of that same dolorous Fair dame he might behold in perfect kind; Which seen, he much rejoiced ...
— Lectures on the English Poets - Delivered at the Surrey Institution • William Hazlitt

... hope of a bare economic solution of the question of bread and butter is possible in Russia only through such an absolute and tyrannous dictatorship as has been established, under which the reluctant and disorganized proletariat can be forced back to work, whether they wish or no, at the point of the bayonets of the Red Guard. Would the American working-man think this ...
— The Red Conspiracy • Joseph J. Mereto

... the eastern blow, with rain aslant, From mid-sea's prairies green and rolling plains Drives in his wallowing herds of billows gaunt, And the roused Charles remembers in his veins Old Ocean's blood and snaps his gyves of frost, That tyrannous silence on the shores is tost In dreary wreck, ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell

... being paid at the rate of a hundred and fifty pounds a year,' he said to his sister in a burst of thankfulness, 'and you shall never, Cytherea, be at any tyrannous lady's beck and call again as long as I live. Never pine or think about what has happened, dear; it's no disgrace to you. Cheer up; you'll be somebody's ...
— Desperate Remedies • Thomas Hardy


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