"tyrannous" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 582:",
          "text": "[…] that Elfe,\nThat man and beast with powre imperious\nSubdeweth to his kingdome tyrannous:",
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          "ref": "c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:",
          "text": "Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne\nTo tyrannous hate!",
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          "text": "It is extraordinary that as the wicked arts of this regicide and tyrannous faction increase in number, variety, and atrocity, the desire of punishing them becomes more and more faint […]",
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          "ref": "1881, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Soothsay” in Ballads and Sonnets, London: Ellis & White, pp. 269-270, The affinities have strongest part In youth, and draw men heart to heart",
          "text": "As life wears on and finds no rest,\nThe individual in each breast\nIs tyrannous to sunder them."
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