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- adjective Obsolete form of
tyrannic .
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Examples
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The soldiers had the upper hand, however, and Winston records that he was forthwith "confined by tyrannick military force."
The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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Times under the tyrannick Usurpation of Oliver Cromwell_, ed. 1690, p. 98., we are informed that Hugh Peters, after he had been expelled the University of Cambridge, went to London, and enrolled himself as player in
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That he was disposed to do his servants good, on important occasions, is no great mitigation; benefaction can be but rare, and tyrannick peevishness is perpetual.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746
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Blood-thirsty, lewd, tyrannick Salvage Monsters. —
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