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Ahabian

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Etymology

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From Ahab +‎ -ian, after the fictional captain in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick who is obsessed with killing a whale who once injured him.

Adjective

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Ahabian (comparative more Ahabian, superlative most Ahabian)

  1. tyrannically monomaniac