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   peremptory

   /pəˈrɛm(p)t(ə)ri/

   adjective

   • 1. insisting on immediate attention or obedience, especially in a brusquely imperious way: "‘Just do it!’ came the peremptory reply" Similar brusqueimperioushigh-handedbriskabruptsummarycommandingauthoritativeoverbearingdogmaticautocraticdictatorialbossydomineeringarbitraryarrogantoverweeninglordlytyrannicaldespoticimperialmagisterialauthoritarianemphaticfirminsistentimperativepositive
   • ▪ not open to appeal or challenge; final: "a peremptory order of the court" Similar incontrovertibleirreversiblebindingabsolutefinalconclusivedecisivedefinitivecategoricalirrefutableunconditionalunchallengeableunappealable

   Word Origin late Middle English (as a legal term): via Anglo-Norman French from Latin peremptorius ‘deadly, decisive’, from perempt- ‘destroyed, cut off’, from the verb perimere, from per- ‘completely’ + emere ‘take, buy’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. peremptorily adverb
   • 2. peremptoriness noun

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