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

My noble and illustrious friend betray'd By crafty faction, and tyrannic power!

From The Earl of Essex by Jones, Henry Festing

"There's nothing the matter," he said, in a tyrannic voice.

From Coquette by Swinnerton, Frank