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Rhadamanthine Rad A Man Thin Adjective Strictly Uncompromisingly Rhadamanthus Greek Mythology

Front rhadamanthine \rad-a-MAN-thin\
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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