adv. [f. prec. + -LY2. Cf. OF. tiranneusement.] In a tyrannous manner; with tyrannical oppression or cruelty; despotically. Also fig.
1545. Brinklow, Compl., xxii. (1874), 53. Let the kyngs grace consyder how tyrannosly … thei vsed part of his progenytors, kynges of Ingland.
1559. Mirr. Mag., Rich. Plantagenet, iv. Waye how vsurpers tyrannously warke.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., V. ii. 13. They each at other tyrannously flew.
1612–6. Liber Depositionum Archid. Colcestr., lf. 70 b (MS.). Margaret Adams did vse her husband extreamly cruelly and tiranously.
1670. Milton, Hist. Eng., II. Wks. 1851, V. 46. Julius … tyrannously had made himself Emperor of the Roman Common-wealth.
1844. Fraser’s Mag., XXX. 460/2. Monarchies more tyrannously monarchical.
1859. Geo. Eliot, A. Bede, xxviii. His deed … was already governing him tyrannously.
1865. Kingsley, Herew., Prelude. Right tyrannously … be lords it over her.
So Tyrannousness, tyrannous character or quality.
1870. M. Arnold, St. Paul & Protestantism, 17. This proves well what the narrowness and tyrannousness of Puritanism dominant had really been.
1884. Chicago Tribune, 20 Dec., 4/3. By their tyrannousness they are inviting public resentment to array itself against the railroads themselves instead of against the abuses of the railroad managers.
1890. J. H. Newman, in Life (1912), II. xxix. 289. I cannot bear to think of the tyrannousness and cruelty of its advocates.
