tyrannous

From Latin tyrannus (“tyrant”) +‎ -ous.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɪɹənəs/

tyrannous (comparative more tyrannous, superlative most tyrannous)

1. Tyrannical, despotic or oppressive.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 582:

     […] that Elfe,
     That man and beast with powre imperious
     Subdeweth to his kingdome tyrannous:

   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:

     Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne
     To tyrannous hate!

   • 1797, Edmund Burke, “Remarks on the Policy of the Allies with Respect to France”, in Three Memorials on French Affairs‎, London: F. & C. Rivington, page 193:

     It is extraordinary that as the wicked arts of this regicide and tyrannous faction increase in number, variety, and atrocity, the desire of punishing them becomes more and more faint […]

   • 1881, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Soothsay” in Ballads and Sonnets, London: Ellis & White, pp. 269-270,

     The affinities have strongest part
     In youth, and draw men heart to heart:
     As life wears on and finds no rest,
     The individual in each breast
     Is tyrannous to sunder them.