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peremptoriness|ˈpɛrəm(p)tərɪnɪs, pəˈrɛm-|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality or character of being peremptory; positiveness, absoluteness; conclusiveness, imperativeness, assurance, dogmatism, imperiousness; † fixed determination, obstinacy, etc.
1586A. Day Eng. Secretary ii. (1625) 29 Finding by such peremptorinesse my sense to bee ouercome, you..cut me yet thirtie pound shorter. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. Epit. (1612) 375 This vnexpected peremptorinesse in him amazed and misliked not a few. 1649Roberts Clavis Bibl. 413 The Peremptorinesse of Gods purpose to ruine Babylon. 1699Burnet 39 Art. xiv. (1700) 134 Words..delivered in the strain and peremptoriness of a Command. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1810) I. xvii. 114 No peremptoriness, Clary Harlowe: once you declare yourself inflexible, I have done. 1876Green Stray Stud. 318 Her exhortations at the sick⁓bed have a somewhat startling peremptoriness about them. |