tyrannous

How To Use tyrannous In A Sentence

• Hesper, moveth in heaven a light more tyrannous ever? Poems and Fragments
• I had been accustomed while on earth to oppose tyrannous authority, and this habit remained with me in Hell.
• A war of intrigue, conducted by one tyrannous power against another, was altogether different. Times, Sunday Times
• tyrannous disregard of human rights
• These ultrapatriotic characters were turning the defeat of France into a sort of pedestal on which they could stand, the better to insult Frenchmen…They took advantage of the German Occupation to impose a really tyrannous programme on the people, something that might have been thought up by a bunch of former Cagoulards.57 The Sion Revelation
• Your tyrannous masters often implead, arrest, and cast you into prison, so that they may the more terrify and torture you in your minds, and wind your necks more surely under their arms .... The Rise of the Democracy
• “Nay;” and quoth the other, “He who owned this skull was a King of the Kings of the world, who dealt tyrannously with his subjects, specially wronging the weak and wasting his time in heaping up the rubbish of this world, till Allah took his sprite and made the fire his abiding-site; and this is his head.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• Olema and men of valiancy and that whereinto thou hast cast thyself of calamity so that there is neither power nor strength left in thee to repel whoso shall assail thee, more by token that thou transgressest and orderest thyself tyrannously and profligately The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• Encyclopédie which compose this Dictionary embody a mass of scholarly research, criticism, and speculation, lit up with pungent sallies at the formal and tyrannous ecclesiasticism of the period and the bases of belief on which it stood. A Philosophical Dictionary