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iron-handed, a.
[f. iron hand (see iron a. 3 c, e, and hand n.) + -ed2.]
Having a ‘hand of iron’; acting or ruling with an ‘iron hand’; inflexible; severe, rigorous, despotic.
1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 565 We are not obliged to Him, but to the iron-handed goddess, Necessity. 1845Hirst Poems 142 We go iron-handed our fortune to woo. 1855Motley Dutch Rep. (1861) I. 36 This iron-handed, hot-headed, adventurous race, placed as sovereign upon its little sandy hook. 1875W. E. Griffis in N. Amer. Rev. CXX. 289 The iron-handed rule of the great commander..was felt all over the empire. |