All 3 Uses
peremptory
in
The Water is Wide
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- So when Jim would clap his hands and ask for order and the dust cloud of children kicking a ball and each other would swirl past him oblivious to his command, and when he would clap his hands again, this time louder and more peremptory, and the great cloud would nearly trample him as it passed his spot again, I could only smile and thank God that I had taught awhile and knew where I stood in the great chain of being among the children of Yamacraw School.†
p. 107.9
- Only this time silence reigned where there had once been the peremptory "yes, ma'ams."†
p. 153.5 *
- I then explained very quickly why I had come to waste his priceless time, that Mrs. Brown refused to authorize the trip, that the trip was being paid-for by private resources, that the children would benefit from this trip a hundredfold, and that God and man considered it peremptory that he grant his approval.†
p. 245.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(peremptory) not allowing contradiction or refusal
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)