PEREMPTORILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does peremptorily mean? 

• PEREMPTORILY (adverb)
  The adverb PEREMPTORILY has 1 sense:

1. in an imperative and commanding manner

  Familiarity information: PEREMPTORILY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEREMPTORILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an imperative and commanding manner

Synonyms:

imperatively; peremptorily

Pertainym:

peremptory (not allowing contradiction or refusal)

 Context examples 

"What is all this?" demanded another voice peremptorily; and Mrs. Reed came along the corridor, her cap flying wide, her gown rustling stormily.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"Come in," he said peremptorily, "and shut the door!"

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“Go up on deck!” I commanded peremptorily.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

So peremptorily did these shades beckon him, that each day mankind and the claims of mankind slipped farther from him.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

When Emma afterwards heard that Jane Fairfax had been seen wandering about the meadows, at some distance from Highbury, on the afternoon of the very day on which she had, under the plea of being unequal to any exercise, so peremptorily refused to go out with her in the carriage, she could have no doubt—putting every thing together—that Jane was resolved to receive no kindness from her.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

After half a moment's pause: And I should have been very much surprised had either of my daughters, on receiving a proposal of marriage at any time which might carry with it only half the eligibility of this, immediately and peremptorily, and without paying my opinion or my regard the compliment of any consultation, put a decided negative on it.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

So long as he was in actual professional practice the records of his successes were of some practical value to him, but since he has definitely retired from London and betaken himself to study and bee-farming on the Sussex Downs, notoriety has become hateful to him, and he has peremptorily requested that his wishes in this matter should be strictly observed.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I said lightly that I had heard nothing at all, and a few minutes later I got up to go home. They came to the door with me and stood side by side in a cheerful square of light. As I started my motor Daisy peremptorily called "Wait!

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)