iron-handedness
See also: ironhandedness and iron handedness
English
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editEtymology
editFrom iron-handed + -ness.
Noun
edit- Synonym of heavy-handedness: the property or state of being iron-handed.
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- In actions opening the Normandy invasion, American paratroopers suffered their first encounterwith SS iron-handedness, and later at Bayeux the 12th SS Panzer Division shot down forty British and Canadian prisoners of war.