Politicians agreed that husbands should not use their power tyrannically, but were also anxious to defend what they regarded as a crucial component of their masculinity.
For the king and parliament, in which they were not represented, to take their property by statute was to act at least arbitrarily, and in their eyes tyrannically.
I am not here to deny that that power was exercised in certain cases tyrannically.
In doing so, it will not set itself up, either, as a teacher who tyrannically delivers his lessons.
I do not think that this proposal has been put forward in any sense tyrannically.
This is a naval force which is supposed to be maintained in a state of efficiency and discipline by a tyrannically-imposed discipline by officers bullying the men.
In some instances, the chief and his supporters ruled tyrannically; in others, the chief became a manipulated figurehead.
