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The trait of being imperious and overbearing
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imperiousness
Word definitions for imperiousness in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The quality of being imperious; arrogance; haughtiness; urgency.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the trait of being imperious and overbearing [syn: domineeringness , overbearingness ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Imperiousness \Im*pe"ri*ous*ness\, n. The quality or state of being imperious; arrogance; haughtiness. Imperiousness and severity is but an ill way of treating men who have reason of their own to guide them. --Locke.
Usage examples of imperiousness.
His behavior vacillated between an almost unbearable imperiousness when addressing his younger brother and sisters to adolescent sullenness when he gazed at the table where Fara sat with adult members of Council.
Though Alexander’s imperiousness was subtler, sheathed in the velvet of compliments.
Alexander abandoned his imperiousness and managed to look both contrite and beguiling.
Just that the arrogance and imperiousness that Lee had seen in Kinross had now crumbled to reveal the old Alexander.
This face was far more beautiful than Thyra’s and it held an imperiousness in it that quelled Biarki’s temper.
This was the only way to deal with the sour-tempered floor ladies: answering imperiousness with imperiousness.
The imperiousness faded as Gerlach scrambled for a plausible explanation.
She said the last words with a return of her imperiousness, already angry at having been drawn so far.
The imperiousness of my voice arrested and compelled her perhaps against her very will.
Decreed with uncharacteristic imperiousness twenty-three years ago on assuming his title, High Prince Rohan's strict law severely punished anyone who killed a dragon.