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

I shall never win Rachel,' he said, 'and I want nothing else that anybody can give me; and what is the use of putting my head under the tyrannic old yoke?'

From Old Kensington by Thackeray, Miss

Florence, too, we must except from the tyrannic system, for a democratic government prevailed there for many years to come, and also Rome, where the Papacy prevented Colonna and Orsini from establishing a despotism.

From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Sedgwick, Henry Dwight

As an instance of the early development of the tyrannic tendencies of human nature, it is, in a philosophical point of view, quite unique.

From Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot by Collins, Wilkie