語源

ironhanded +‎ -ness

名詞

ironhandedness (uncountable)

1. The quality or state of being ironhanded.
   • 1904 March 5, “Personality of the Czar”, in The Search-light, page 222:

     He is amiable where iron[-]handedness is essential.

   • 1989, Edward Baron Turk, Child of Paradise: Marcel Carné and the Golden Age of French Cinema, →ISBN, page 53:

     The actress Arletty, who feels genuine affection for Carne and believes that his ironhandedness on the set "was pure show," compares the director to conductor Herbert von Karajan, because "like von Karajan, he treats his shooting scripts like musical scores which he conducts entirely from memory ... We felt secure with him because he knew exactly what the final product was supposed to look like."

語源

From iron-handed +‎ -ness.

名詞

iron-handedness (uncountable)

1. Synonym of heavy-handedness: the property or state of being iron-handed.
   • 2013, Gerald Linderman, The World within War, →ISBN:

     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.