All 3 Uses of
imperious
in
William Wilson
- In truth, the ardor, the enthusiasm, and the imperiousness of my disposition, soon rendered me a marked character among my schoolmates, and by slow, but natural gradations, gave me an ascendancy over all not greatly older than myself;—over all with a single exception.†
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- Poor justification this, in truth, for an authority so imperiously assumed!†
imperiously = in a manner that expects obedience; or in an arrogant, domineering manner
- Thus far I had succumbed supinely to this imperious domination.†
Definition:
expecting obedience; or arrogant; or domineering