"iron-handed" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From the idea of having an iron hand.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "word": "iron-handedness"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Michael Bernhard, Henryk Szlajfer, From the Polish Underground: Selections from Krytyka, 1978-1993, page 89",
          "text": "Here I am not primarily concerned with the long-term effects of such separation, about which the advocates of iron-handed rule in Poland have always written with great glee.",
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          "ref": "2013, Harry Turtledove, The Sceptre's Return",
          "text": "I couldn't believe that iron-handed old tyrant would have a son waho cared for nothing but praying.",
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          "ref": "2014, Eugene V. Gallagher, Reading and Writing Scripture in New Religious Movements, page 69",
          "text": "Celebration of the strong, powerful, bold, victorious, and iron-handed is presented as much more in tune with human nature, just as praise for the weak, feeble, humble, vanquished, and poor in spirit results from a foolish ignorance of true human desires.",
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        "Strict and dictatorial, exercising firm ruthless control."
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          "Strict",
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        "(derogatory) Strict and dictatorial, exercising firm ruthless control."
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        {
          "word": "hard-handed"
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          "word": "heavy-handed"
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        {
          "word": "iron-fisted"
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          "word": "bossy"
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        {
          "word": "ironhanded"
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        {
          "word": "iron handed"
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  "word": "iron-handed"
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      "word": "hard-handed"
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        "Strict and dictatorial, exercising firm ruthless control."
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      "word": "ironhanded"
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    {
      "word": "iron handed"
    }
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  "word": "iron-handed"
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