tyrannic

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The tsars’ successors, the Soviets, proclaimed lofty ideals but in governing such a vast land they, too, became consumed by the tyrannic paranoia that plagued their forebears.

From Economist • Aug. 18, 2016

The U.S. general in charge of the case admits Cargill's difficulties; but, somewhat like Captain Vere in Melville's Billy Budd, he sets law. however tyrannic, above lawbreaking, however understandable.

From Time Magazine Archive

Love, with what strange tyrannic laws must they Comply, which are subjected to thy sway!

From Thomas Stanley: His Original Lyrics, Complete, In Their Collated Readings of 1647, 1651, 1657. With an Introduction, Textual Notes, A List of Editions, An Appendis of Translation, and a Portrait. by Stanley, Thomas

He anchors his yacht in the middle of the Thames—as if the tyrannic authorities of the Port of London would ever allow a yacht, or any other craft, to anchor in midstream!

From When Winter Comes to Main Street by Overton, Grant Martin

One can almost believe so; for tyrannic government came in with the Austrian, who ruled here because of Don Juan's death.

From Heroic Spain by O'Reilly, Elizabeth Boyle