imperiously

Etymology

imperious + -ly

adv

  1. In an imperious manner; in the style of an emperor.
    Reversing the car I got the headlights on the bird sitting on the roadside fencepost to reveal a Powerful Owl imperiously staring back at us. 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 72
  2. In a way that brooks no refusal; commandingly.
    Something up above was calling him imperiously[.] 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, London: Wordsworth Classics, published 1993, page 12

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