imperiousnessn.

1574 J. Whitgift Def. Aunswere to Admon. i. 63 Neither is this woorde ‘εὐεργέται’, of any suche imperiousnesse, that Chryste shoulde forbyd hys Disciples the name.

1624 Gagge for Pope iii. 78 Out of death sprung the life of imperiousnesse, for after Octauius, Anthony, and Lepidus had reuenged his death,..Octauius..reigned forty foure yeeres alone as Augustus.

1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 508 Hee..gave way to his sonne Bajacet to fill the chaire of imperiousnesse.

1670 J. Narborough Jrnl. in Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) i. 103 This they do to shew their Greatness and Imperiousness.

1582 R. Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elementarie xii. 66 Men of good wit, & great vnderstanding, who perceaued & misliked this imperiousnesse of sound.

a1595 R. Southwell Humble Supplication (1600) 28 What gentleman coulde indure the peremtory & insolent imperiousnes of a company of gredy & manerlesse mates.

1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts 2. Cor. x. 251 His letters (say they) are full of great authority, and imperiousnesse.

1673 R. Allestree Ladies Calling ii. ii. ⁋14. 70 The imperiousness of a woman do's often raise those storms, wherein her self is shipwrack'd.

1750 Universal Mag. Apr. 168/2 His general hatred to the French nation, upon account of their imperiousness and arrogance with respect to Foreigners.

1783 S. Johnson Lives Eng. Poets (rev. ed.) III. 416 He [sc. Swift] apparently flattered his own arrogance by an assumed imperiousness, in which he was ironical only to the resentful.

1817 tr. Countess D'Anois Fairy Tales & Novels II. 331 Her sister's imperiousness made her hated.

1870 Spectator 19 Nov. 1376 The imperiousness of which, when identified with Germany, Germans were in a degree proud.

1930 Illustr. London News 17 May 880/1 She comes into conflict with his rigidity, his archaic imperiousness, his attempt to treat her as a child.

2016 Toronto Star (Nexis) 3 Mar. s1 Sweden, meanwhile, looks tremendous:..forwards with great skill, Henrik Lundqvist and his easy imperiousness in goal.

a1646 J. Burroughs Two Treat. (1649) 241 So it should be with a Christian, there should be a strong imperiousnes to get up to his own place; that would be an evidence indeed that Heaven is thy proper place.

1699 Feign'd Friendship v. 46 I might plead the imperiousness of Love for my crime, but I had rather take it upon my self.

1797 Root of Evil 44 The minister..yielded to the imperiousness of necessity.

1824 W. Tyler Woodland Echoes Pref. p. vi Necessity, and the imperiousness of circumstances, prevented me from giving that finish to them which I fear they too much lack.

1894 Chicago Advance 4 Jan. Yielding to a sweet imperiousness which they could not resist, the tired mother and her daughters descended from the wagon.

1916 Northwest Med. 15 197/2 The symptoms..are chiefly frequency and imperiousness, cardinal symptoms of all maladies of the urinary tract of an inflammatory nature.

2002 Times (Nexis) 6 June (T2 section) 3/3 I'm struck in these ‘interesting’ times by the imperiousness of the human need to keep living as normal.