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comparative more draconic, superlative most draconic
Relating to or suggestive of dragons. quotations examples
There are amongst the constellations four great draconic or serpent-like forms.
1908, E. Walter Maunder, chapter V, in The Astronomy of the Bible, New York: Mitchell Kennerley, page 196
(rare, dated, has been replaced by "draconian") Very severe or strict; draconian. quotations
[…] they no land / Doomed to bewail the blasphemy of laws / Making kings' rights divine, by some Draconic clause.
1818, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto 3, Stanza 64
The sexual instinct can hardly be changed by prescriptions; I doubt whether all laws against homosexual intercourse, even the most draconic, have ever been able to extinguish the peculiar desire of anybody born with homosexual tendencies.
1932, Edvard Westermarck, chapter VIII, in Ethical Relativity, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, page 248
In the first months after the October Revolution Lenin was already demanding "the most decisive, draconic measures to tighten up discipline."
1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Thomas P. Whitney, The Gulag Archipelago, Harper & Row, published 1973, Vol. 2, Part III, pp. 9-10