commandingly
English
Etymology
commanding + -ly
Adverb
commandingly (not comparable)
- In a commanding fashion.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter ?”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299:
- And yet, somehow, did Ahab—in his own proper self, as daily, hourly, and every instant, commandingly revealed to his subordinates,—Ahab seemed an independent lord […]
- 1927 May, Virginia Woolf, “Chapter 4”, in To the Lighthouse (Uniform Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf), new edition, London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, […], published 1930, OCLC 459139804:
- She could see it all so clearly, so commandingly, when she looked: it was when she took her brush in hand that the whole thing changed.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 5, in The Line of Beauty, New York: Bloomsbury, OCLC 1036692193:
- “Delightful idea,” said Lady Partridge. […] ¶ “It is, I believe, an irresistible one,” said Lipscomb, laying his left hand commandingly on the table.
- 2007 June 20, Katharine Q. Seelye, “Former First Couple Mimics TV’s Former First Couple”, in New York Times:
- “I ordered for the table,” she says, commandingly.
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