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imperiousness|ɪmˈpɪərɪəsnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being imperious.
†1. Imperial character or dignity; absolute rule or sovereignty; empire. Obs.
1574Whitgift Def. Aunsw. i. Wks. (Parker Soc.) I. 151 Neither is this word ‘εὐεργέται’ of any such imperiousness, that Christ should forbid his disciples the name. 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 508 Hee..gave way to his sonne Bajacet to fill the chaire of imperiousnesse. 1670Narborough Jrnl. in Acc. Sev. Late Voy. i. (1711) 103 This they do to shew their Greatness and Imperiousness.
2. Overbearing character, disposition, or manner; domineering, arrogance.
a1613Overbury A Wife Wks. (1638) 139 His other Beast Imperiousnes, is yet more proudly loaden. 1673Lady's Call. ii. ii. ⁋14. 70 The imperiousness of a woman do's often raise those storms, wherein her self is shipwrack'd. 1779–81Johnson L.P., Swift Wks. III. 409 He [Swift] apparently flattered his own arrogance by an assumed imperiousness, in which he was ironical only to the resentful. 1870Spectator 19 Nov. 1376 The imperiousness of which, when identified with Germany, Germans were in a degree proud.
3. Overmastering or imperative quality, urgency.
1667Pepys Diary 22 Oct., Which Sir J. Duncomb answered with great imperiousness and earnestness. 1828Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) I. 228 The imperiousness of his demands experienced an immediate relaxation. 1894Chicago Advance 4 Jan., Yielding to a sweet imperiousness which they could not resist, the tired mother and her daughters descended from the wagon. |