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tyrannophobic

tyrannophobic adjective: characterized by tyrannophobia.

Adjective

tyrannophobic (comparative more tyrannophobic, superlative most tyrannophobic)

  1. Characterized by tyrannophobia.
    • In the first, tyrannophobic constitutional designers set up elaborate vetogates, legislative and judicial oversight, and other checks and balances, all with an eye to minimizing the risks of executive dictatorship.2011, Eric A. Posner, Adrian Vermeule, The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic, →ISBN, page 197
    • Our data set is cross-sectional, so we cannot directly test whether a democracy with a tyrannophobic population is less likely to become a dictatorship.2012, Tom Ginsburg, Comparative Constitutional Design, →ISBN, page 330

Forms of tyrannophobic

comparativemore tyrannophobic
superlativemost tyrannophobic

Origin of tyrannophobic

From tyranno- + -phobic.

Questions about tyrannophobic

What does tyrannophobic mean?
Tyrannophobic means characterized by tyrannophobia.
What part of speech is tyrannophobic?
Tyrannophobic is an adjective.

Words near tyrannophobic in the dictionary

  1. tyrannophilia
  2. tyrannophilic
  3. tyrannophobe
  4. tyrannophobes
  5. tyrannophobia
  6. tyrannophobic
  7. tyrannoraptoran
  8. tyrannoraptorans
  9. tyrannosaur
  10. Tyrannosaura Regina
  11. tyrannosauri

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