Authoritatively
[ɔ:'θɔ:rə,teitivli]
Definition
(adv.) in an authoritative and magisterial manner; 'she spoke authoritatively'.
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Examples
- I wish you to go,' said he, authoritatively. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- No; you must go and sleep this afternoon, replied Justinian authoritatively; and you also, Crispin. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Not one step shall you stir, she went on authoritatively. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Certainly not, said Eustacia authoritatively, as she paced smartly up and down from door to gate to warm herself. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Methods have then to be authoritatively recommended to teachers, instead of being an expression of their own intelligent observations. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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