commandingnessn.
/kəˈmɑːndɪŋnɪs//kəˈmandɪŋnɪs/ rare.
Commanding quality, authority.
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imperance1595
imperativeness1665
commandingness1887
1887 M. Linskill in Sunday Mag. 503 Speaking with a regal commandingness that drew all hearts.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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n.1887- to card away
- to card up
- to care a fig, or fig's end for
- to care a twopenny damn
- to care a twopenny hang
- to care for
- to care na by
- to care not a chip
- to care not a fouter
- to care two a hoot
- to care two hoots
- to care twopence
- to careen a wig
- to career it
- to cark it
- to carouse it
- to carry , gain, get, win, go away with etc the garland
- to carry , gain, get, win, go away with the garland
- to carry , to drink, eat, go, run to excess
- to carry a bone in her mouth
- to carry a brick in one's hat
- to carry a business
- to carry a etc eye on
- to carry a etc eye upon
- to carry a etc hand over