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Definition
harsh and unjust rule
- Poor tyrannical Rachel keeps trying to build a big-sister career upon a slim sixteen-month seniority, insisting that we respect her as our elder.Book 3 — Judges (24% in)
- But that exacting, tyrannical God of his has left me for good.Book 6 — Song of the Children (64% in)
There are no more uses of "tyranny" in The Poisonwood Bible.
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