Definition of "commandingly"
commandingly
adverb
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Quotations
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 […]
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter ?”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley
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.
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