tyrannouslyadv.
/ˈtɪrənəsli/, /ˈtɪrn̩əsli/, U.S. /ˈtɪrənəsli/ In a tyrannous manner; with tyrannical oppression or cruelty; despotically. Also figurative.
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society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [adverb]
tyrantlyc1470
tyrannicly1539
tyrannously?1542
slavely1553
tyrannically1560
tyranniously1608
slavishly1621
oppressively1650
grindingly1828
inquisitorially1830
?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors xxii. sig. F5 Let the kyngs grace consyder, how tyrannosly..thei vsed part of his progenytors, kynges of Ingland.
1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Richard II. iv Waye how vsurpers tyrannously warke.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. ii. sig. N4 They each at other tyrannously flew. View more context for this quotation
1612–16 Liber Deposit. infra Archidiacon. Colcestrensem (MS) lf. 70 b Margaret Adams did vse her husband extreamly cruelly and tiranously.
1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. ii. 50 Julius..tyrannously had made himself Emperor of the Roman Common-wealth.
1844 Fraser's Mag. 30 460/2 Monarchies more tyrannously monarchical.
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede II. iv. xxviii. 256 His deed..was already governing him tyrannously.
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. Prel. 4 Right tyrannously..he lords it over her.
Derivatives
ˈtyrannousness n. tyrannous character or quality.
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society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [noun] > quality
tyrannicalness1649
oppressiveness1701
inquisitorialness1834
tyrannousness1870
1870 M. Arnold St. Paul & Protestantism 17 This proves well what the narrowness and tyrannousness of Puritanism dominant had really been.
1870 J. H. Newman in Life (1912) II. xxix. 289 I cannot bear to think of the tyrannousness and cruelty of its advocates.
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