Rhadamanthine describes something or someone that is strictly and uncompromisingly just.
Rhadamanthine describes something or someone that is strictly and uncompromisingly just.
| Front | rhadamanthine \rad-a-MAN-thin\ |
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| Back | adjective Strictly and uncompromisingly just. [From Rhadamanthus, in Greek Mythology a son of Zeus and Europa who, in reward for his exemplary sense of justice, was made a judge of the underworld after his death.] "Antoine Christophe Saliceti returned to his home island in the role of inflexible ideologue ... dispensing rhadamanthine justice." Steven Englund; Napoleon: A Political Life; Scribner; 2003. |
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