tyrannously

comparative more tyrannously · superlative most tyrannously

1. In a tyrannous or despotic manner.

   1894, Arthur S. Way, Hecuba, lines 282–283, page 211 in The Tragedies of Euripides, Vol. I. Not tyrannously the strong should use their strength, Nor they which prosper think to prosper aye.

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   He finds out, soon enough for his weal and his bane, that he is stronger than Nature: and right tyrannously and irreverently he lords it over her, clearing, delving, dyking, building, without fear or shame.

   1866, C[harles] Kingsley, “Prelude. Of the Fens.”, in Hereward the Wake, “Last of the English.” […], volume I, London; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 4

   Synonyms: despotically