tyrannicallyadv.
1. In a tyrannical manner; oppressively; despotically.
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society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [adverb]
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1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccxvi Luther was in dede condemned..violently and tyrannically.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures lxi. 248 God hath made you Kings to use clemency towards men,..not to kill them tyrannically.
1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. i. iv. 78 These poor Prisoners..are tyranically insulted over by their rigid Creditors, till the debt is satisfied.
1756 C. Smart tr. Horace Satires ii. ii, in tr. Horace Wks. (1826) II. 101 Such a man will not..be tyrannically cruel.
1839 G. P. R. James Louis XIV III. 145 Colbert..pursuing not only eagerly, but somewhat tyrannically, his schemes.
1874 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David IV. Ps. xcix. 4 His power never exerts itself tyrannically.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly
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1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge v. iii. sig. I4 I am most tyrannically hungry.
1607 ‘W. S.’ Puritaine i. 12 I warrant my Kinsman's talking of me, for my left eare burnes most tyrannically?
a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) ii. ii. 342 That crye out on the top of question; and are most tyrannically clap't for't.
Derivatives
tyˈrannicalness n. rare tyrannical character.
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society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [noun] > quality
tyrannicalness1649
oppressiveness1701
inquisitorialness1834
tyrannousness1870
1649 F. Roberts Clavis Bibliorum (ed. 2) 588 Which Chaldeans are described..By their..Tyrannicalnesse.
1727 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II
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