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Adjective- Rigorously just.

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  • Last week's term was rhadamanthine, which is defined as:
  • One great, if not the greatest, end of poetry is rhadamanthine justice.
  • While you are choosing, maybe I could bring you some adjectives - rhadamanthine, mellifluous, torpid, porcine.
  • The design of the poem is manifestly incompatible with stern "rhadamanthine justice" and indignant denunciation of wrong.
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  • This word was used in the 2006 Scripps National Spelling Bee finals.
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