All 4 Uses of
imperious
in
Jane Eyre
- I felt at times as if he were my relation rather than my master: yet he was imperious sometimes still; but I did not mind that; I saw it was his way.†
p. 171.9 *
- I have told you, reader, that I had learnt to love Mr. Rochester: I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me — because I might pass hours in his presence, and he would never once turn his eyes in my direction — because I saw all his attentions appropriated by a great lady, who scorned to touch me with the hem of her robes as she passed; who, if ever her dark and imperious eye fell on me by chance, would withdraw it instantly as from an object too mean to merit observation.†
p. 215.5
- The well-known face was there: stern, relentless as ever — there was that peculiar eye which nothing could melt, and the somewhat raised, imperious, despotic eyebrow.†
p. 265.9
- "Answer me — speak again!" he ordered, imperiously and aloud.†
p. 500.2imperiously = in a manner that expects obedience; or in an arrogant, domineering manner
Definition:
expecting obedience; or arrogant; or domineering