IMPERIOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does imperiously mean? 

• IMPERIOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb IMPERIOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. in an imperious manner

  Familiarity information: IMPERIOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPERIOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an imperious manner

Context example:

imperiously he cut her short

Pertainym:

imperious (having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy)

 Context examples 

"Answer me—speak again!" he ordered, imperiously and aloud.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“Now,” said she, imperiously, without glancing at him, and touching the old wound as it throbbed: perhaps, in this instance, with pleasure rather than pain.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But after two days the call in the forest began to sound more imperiously than ever.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It had not been possible for him to spend less; he had done nothing but what Sir Walter Elliot was imperiously called on to do; but blameless as he was, he was not only growing dreadfully in debt, but was hearing of it so often, that it became vain to attempt concealing it longer, even partially, from his daughter.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Among the terriers he stalked imperiously, and Toots and Ysabel he utterly ignored, for he was king,—king over all creeping, crawling, flying things of Judge Miller’s place, humans included.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire and the beaten earth around it, and to plunge into the forest, and on and on, he knew not where or why; nor did he wonder where or why, the call sounding imperiously, deep in the forest.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)