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tyrannous

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tyr·an·nous  (tr-ns)
adj.
Characterized by tyranny; despotic.
tyran·nous·ly adv.
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Adj.1.tyrannous - marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behaviortyrannous - marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior; "the oppressive government"; "oppressive laws"; "a tyrannical parent"; "tyrannous disregard of human rights"
tyrannical, oppressive
domineering - tending to domineer
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tyrannous
adj → tyrannisch
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All the weather of the world is based upon the contest of the Polar and Equatorial strains of that tyrannous race.
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No answering spark of kindness, no awakening penitence, but an unappeasable ill-humour, and a spirit of tyrannous exaction that increased with indulgence, and a lurking gleam of self-complacent triumph at every detection of relenting softness in my manner, that congealed me to marble again as often as it recurred; and this morning he finished the business:- I think the petrifaction is so completely effected at last that nothing can melt me again.
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All knew, very well, that the indulgences which had been accorded to them were not from their mistress, but from their master; and that, now he was gone, there would be no screen between them and every tyrannous infliction which a temper soured by affliction might devise.
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