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

Impulses of other kinds may exercise just as tyrannic a sway, though it is harder to recognise the elements that make up the mental condition in other cases.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

They foolishly the Kite believed, Who having now the pow’r received, Began upon the Doves to prey, And exercise tyrannic sway.

From The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas)

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