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Rhadamantine

Rhadamantine is the alternative form of Rhadamanthine.

Meaning of Rhadamanthine

Adjective

Rhadamanthine (comparative more Rhadamanthine, superlative most Rhadamanthine)

  1. Strictly and uncompromisingly just.
    • When the father comes home and finds Georgiein disgrace, and Janey in tears, of course the ideal Rhadamanthine thing to do is to lay the coping stone to the boy's wall of isolation, and to add a fresh supply to Janey's bitter fountain. But not being Rhadamanthine, only weak and human and paternal...1869, The Broadway, page 92
  2. Inflexibly rigorous or severe.
    • In a commodious gas-lit box, surrounded by books and papers, and with a mighty folio of loose leaves open before him — a book of Fate, in truth — sits a Rhadamanthine man, buttoned up in a great-coat often; for be it blazing July or frigid December, it is always cold at three o'clock in the morning.1862, George Augustus Sala, Twice Around the Clock: Or, The Hours of the Day and Night in London

Forms of Rhadamantine

comparativemore Rhadamantine
superlativemost Rhadamantine

Questions about Rhadamantine

What is Rhadamantine the alternative form of?
Rhadamantine is the alternative form of Rhadamanthine.

Words near Rhadamantine in the dictionary

  1. Rhadamanthean
  2. Rhadamanthine
  3. Rhadamanthus
  4. Rhadamanthuses
  5. Rhadamanthys
  6. Rhadamantine
  7. Rhade
  8. rhadiditid
  9. rhadiditids
  10. rhadinorhynchid
  11. rhadinorhynchids

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