单词 | dictatorialness |
释义 | dictatorialnessn. The quality or fact of being dictatorial (in various senses). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [noun] > domineering or overbearing lording?a1425 masterdomc1475 imperiousness1582 domineering1617 dictatoring1644 overbearing1649 magisteriousness1650 magisterialness1651 high-handednessa1658 peremptoriness1699 dictation1769 overbearingnessa1797 dictatorialism1826 bashawism1839 dictatorialness1845 domineeringness1889 overmasterfulness1899 bossiness1928 overdoggery1962 1845 Christian's Monthly Mag. 4 685 Jane's self-indulgence, Fanny's irritability, Mary's dictatorialness, Charlotte's asperity, Edith's want of tact, and Anna's unequal spirits, are held up to our view. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 29 Oct. in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life III. 294 A spirit of arrogance and contemptuous dictatorialness is observable. 1888 Times 25 Dec. 3/2 The Cabinet crisis in Bulgaria has been brought about through the dictatorialness of M. Stambouloff. 1939 T. Scudder Jane Welsh Carlyle vii. 55 Against what appeared to him as high-handed dictatorialness he was ready to rebel. 2001 D. Worster River Running West x. 401 What he may actually have said was, go away and leave me in peace, but she was right that dictatorialness was not the director's style. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1845 |
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