All 8 Uses of
peremptory
in
Middlemarch
- She was going to have room for the energies which stirred uneasily under the dimness and pressure of her own ignorance and the petty peremptoriness of the world's habits.†
Chpt 1
- But Fred did not go to Stone Court the next day, for reasons that were quite peremptory.†
Chpt 3 *
- "Nonsense!" said Caleb, with his most peremptory intonation.†
Chpt 6
- Having no money, and having privately sought advice as to what security could possibly be given by a man in his position, Lydgate had offered the one good security in his power to the less peremptory creditor, who was a silversmith and jeweller, and who consented to take on himself the upholsterer's credit also, accepting interest for a given term.†
Chpt 6
- I insist upon it that your father shall not know, unless I choose to tell him," added Lydgate, with a more peremptory emphasis.†
Chpt 6
- "I shall not send them away," said Lydgate, the peremptoriness rising again.†
Chpt 6
- It was a quarter of an hour later before Bulstrode, with a cold peremptoriness of manner which he had not before shown, said, "I came to call you thus early, Mr. Raffles, because I have ordered the carriage to be ready at half-past seven, and intend myself to conduct you as far as Ilsely, where you can either take the railway or await a coach."†
Chpt 7
- Rosamond's thought was, that he was getting more and more unbearable—not that there was any new special reason for this peremptoriness.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(peremptory) not allowing contradiction or refusal