Synonyms for tyrannic
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : ti-ran-i-kuhl, tahy- |
| Phonetic Transcription : tɪˈræn ɪ kəl, taɪ- |
Top 10 synonyms for tyrannic
Définition of tyrannic
Origin :- 1530s; see tyranny + -ical. Tyrannic was used in this sense from late 15c.
- adj authoritarian
- She was a widow and a man-grabber; she still had a tyrannic beauty and a greed of conquest.
- Extract from : « The Cup of Fury » by Rupert Hughes
- She replied to his tyrannic voice with one as hard and stabbing as a gimlet.
- Extract from : « Coquette » by Frank Swinnerton
- In the third line of this rather fine poem 1656 reads 'romantic' for 'tyrannic', and Miss Guiney adopts it.
- Extract from : « Minor Poets of the Caroline Period, Vol III » by John Cleveland
- He was trembling through fear that the Spanish government might call him to account for this tyrannic act.
- Extract from : « Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi » by John S. C. Abbott
- That he was pious after a fashion is most likely, but that he also practised the tyrannic cruelties of his age is undoubted.
- Extract from : « Roumania Past and Present » by James Samuelson
- Least of all would I fix the transitory spirit of civil fury by perpetuating and methodizing it in tyrannic government.
- Extract from : « The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VI. (of 12) » by Edmund Burke
- If these princes had shown a tyrannic disposition, it would be much to be lamented.
- Extract from : « The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. IV. (of 12) » by Edmund Burke
- In glancing at the reign of Alexander II., the eye involuntarily runs over the full panorama of tyrannic outrages.
- Extract from : « The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 » by Various
- The flogging practices of this tyrannic head of the "Third Section" are still in every one's recollection.
- Extract from : « The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 » by Various
- But Frederick is responsible, as every principal is, who launches an agent in a lawless and tyrannic course.
- Extract from : « Voltaire » by John Morley
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