All 11 Uses
peremptory
in
The Mill on the Floss
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- "Go, go!" said Mr. Tulliver, peremptorily, beginning to feel rather uncomfortable at these free remarks on the personal appearance of a being powerful enough to create lawyers; "shut up the book, and let's hear no more o' such talk.†
Chpt 1.3peremptorily = in a manner that does not allow contradiction or refusal
- Tom shook her off, and stopped again, saying in a peremptory tone, "Now, Maggie, you just listen.†
Chpt 1.5
- Tom never disobeyed his father, for Mr. Tulliver was a peremptory man, and, as he said, would never let anybody get hold of his whip-hand; but he went out rather sullenly, carrying his piece of plumcake, and not intending to reprieve Maggie's punishment, which was no more than she deserved.†
Chpt 1.5
- It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love,—this hunger of the heart,—as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.†
Chpt 1.5
- "It wasn't," said Tom, loudly and peremptorily.†
Chpt 1.6 *peremptorily = in a manner that does not allow contradiction or refusal
- "You sit down, all of you," said Mr. Tulliver, peremptorily.†
Chpt 3.9
- It is in the slow, changed life that follows; in the time when sorrow has become stale, and has no longer an emotive intensity that counteracts its pain; in the time when day follows day in dull, unexpectant sameness, and trial is a dreary routine,—it is then that despair threatens; it is then that the peremptory hunger of the soul is felt, and eye and ear are strained after some unlearned secret of our existence, which shall give to endurance the nature of satisfaction.†
Chpt 4.2
- She murmured a little that Mr. Tulliver so peremptorily refused to receive anything in repayment from Mr. and Mrs. Moss; but to all his requirements of household economy she was submissive to the point of denying herself the cheapest indulgences of mere flavor; her only rebellion was to smuggle into the kitchen something that would make rather a better supper than usual for Tom.†
Chpt 4.2peremptorily = in a manner that does not allow contradiction or refusal
- His first impulse was to give a positive refusal, but he was in some awe of Tom's wishes, and since he had the sense of being an "unlucky" father, he had lost some of his old peremptoriness and determination to be master.†
Chpt 5.2
- "Well, put it me out," said Mrs. Glegg, peremptorily.†
Chpt 5.2peremptorily = in a manner that does not allow contradiction or refusal
- "I must go, Bob," he said; "I've something to attend to," hurrying off to the warehouse, where he left notice for some one to take his place; he was called away home on peremptory business.†
Chpt 5.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(peremptory) not allowing contradiction or refusal
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)