tyrannous

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] New Latin from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin tyrannus (“tyrant”).

Adjective

tyrannous (comparative more tyrannous, superlative most tyrannous)

1. Tyrannical, despotic or oppressive.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 3, Canto 12, p. 582,^[1]

     […] that Elfe,

     That man and beast with powre imperious

     Subdeweth to his kingdome tyrannous:

   • c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, Scene 3,^[2]

     Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne

     To tyrannous hate!

   • 1797, Edmund Burke, “Remarks on the Policy of the Allies with Respect to France” in Three Memorials on French Affairs, London: F. & C. Rivington, p. 193,^[3]

     It is extraordinary that as the wicked arts of this regicide and tyrannous faction increase in number, variety, and atrocity, the desire of punishing them becomes more and more faint […]

   • 1881, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Soothsay” in Ballads and Sonnets, London: Ellis & White, pp. 269-270,^[4]

     The affinities have strongest part

     In youth, and draw men heart to heart:

     As life wears on and finds no rest,

     The individual in each breast

     Is tyrannous to sunder them.