peremptoriness

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noun Peremptory, authoritative, or dogmatic character: positiveness; absoluteness; dogmatism: as, the peremptoriness of a command or of a creed.

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He never exceeded in peremptoriness, nor in petting.

CHAPTER 1 2010
He never exceeded in peremptoriness, nor in petting.

Chapter 1 1917
She put her hand to my mouth — No peremptoriness, Clary

Clarissa Harlowe 2006
So, Clary, said my mother, I am returned in a temper accordingly: and I hope you will not again, by your peremptoriness, shew me how I ought to treat you.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006
Perhaps the peremptoriness of my words had offended him; it grieves me to think it possible.

A Changed Man 2006
Then the faithful Sam revived his suit with some peremptoriness.

Life's Little Ironies 2006
We live in a world which, with ever more peremptoriness, require an eye pure and precise, void of impurities as prejudices, partisanship or chauvinism, preconceived ideas and creeds or a priori — all beams that prevent us from seeing the manifolds truths of Life and Spirit.

Leonardo da Vinci, Nietzsche, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
She looked into the camera and, with the peremptoriness of royalty, said, And to you, Mrs. Dee, I have two words for you.

Archive 2005-08-01 Arlene 2005
She looked into the camera and, with the peremptoriness of royalty, said, And to you, Mrs. Dee, I have two words for you.

Melanie Marquez jokes Arlene 2005
She wore Jim down, not merely with the peremptoriness of her appetites but simply with a force of personality that seemed to operate constantly.

The Berrybender Narratives Larry McMurtry 2004