peremptorily
See also: preemptorily and preemptively
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From peremptory + -ly.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]peremptorily (comparative more peremptorily, superlative most peremptorily)
- In a peremptory manner; in a commanding tone, brooking no delay.
- He was peremptorily summoned to see the commanding officer.
- 1597, Francis Bacon, Essays, New York: T.Y. Cromwell, 1901, LVII, "Of Anger", p. 233, [1]
- […] that you doe not peremptorily break off, in any Businesse, in a Fitt of Anger: But howsoever you shew Bitternes, do not Act any thing, that is not Revocable.
- 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist[2], London: J.M. Dent & Sons, published 1911, page 34:
- I shall not peremptorily deny, that from most of such mixt bodies as partake either of animal or vegetable nature, there may by the help of the fire be actually obtained a determinate number […] of substances, worthy of differing denominations.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Discovery”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 165:
- How have I offended you? Twice have I called this morning, and each time you have been peremptorily denied.
- 1885, William Dean Howells, chapter XIII, in The Rise of Silas Lapham[3]:
- […] the door-bell jingled peremptorily, and the girl left waiting on the table to go and answer it.
- 1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter XVI.”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC:
- "Never mind that!" here peremptorily broke in the superior, his face altering with anger […]