Meanings
nounperemptoriness (uncountable)
- uncountableThe quality of being peremptory
Mrs. Stannidge thereupon said with a considerate peremptoriness that she and her mother had better take their own suppers if they meant to have any.
1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter 7, in The Mayor of Casterbridge1 more example
For suddenly the drum beat to quarters, which familiar sound happening at least twice every day, had upon the present occasion a signal peremptoriness in it.
1924, Herman Melville, chapter 23, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.
Origin
Translations
Italian perentorietà
- perentorietàthe quality of being peremptory
Polish bezapelacyjność
- bezapelacyjnośćthe quality of being peremptory
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