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adjective

Authoritative adj.

Having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding. "The sacred functions of authoritative teaching."

Having an air of authority; positive; dictatorial; peremptory; as, an authoritative tone. "The mock authoritative manner of the one, and the insipid mirth of the other."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Authoritative" Quotes from Famous Books

... magistrate, in an authoritative tone—"lilting and singing sae near the latter end o' the Sabbath! This house may hear ye sing anither tune yet. Aweel, we hae a' backslidings to answer for—Stanchells, ...

— The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III • Various

... door, Nicholson, he says, "put himself in front of Mehtab Singh, and waved him back with an authoritative air. The rest of the company then passed out, and when they had gone, Nicholson said to Lake, 'Do you see that General Mehtab Singh has his shoes on?' Lake replied that he had noticed the fact, but tried to excuse it. Nicholson, ...

— John Nicholson - The Lion of the Punjaub • R. E. Cholmeley

... Mining Camps. A Study in American Frontier Government (1885). The duties of the border police are set forth with thrilling details by Horace Bell, Reminiscences of a Ranger or Early Times in Southern California (1881). An authoritative work on the Mormons is W.A. Linn's Story of ...

— The Forty-Niners - A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado • Stewart Edward White

... coerce like that a woman like herself, thinking in his youthfulness that he could sway any woman's heart like that, and cut off the ties that vexed him, and settle everything for the good of both! Heaven! to see him lifting up his authoritative head, making his decision, expecting her to obey! Spare yourself, and me! That she should refuse did not enter into his mind. She might struggle for a time, but to what use? Spare yourself, and me! She could not help a faint smile, painful enough, bitter enough, ...

— A Country Gentleman and his Family • Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

... her his impressions. Berthier was reserved. The others were impenetrable. Loyer alone was excessively authoritative. ...

— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

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