commandingly

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English commanding

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English commandingly

From commanding + -ly.

Adverb

commandingly (not comparable)

1. In a commanding fashion.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     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, part I (The Window), page 34:

     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 […], London: Picador, →ISBN:

     “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 The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     “I ordered for the table,” she says, commandingly.

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