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Imperiousness is the name of that proud, ordering way of being. If someone speaks imperiously, the quality you are hearing is imperiousness — the feeling that they expect to be obeyed, and that they are a little too sure they deserve it. It is a noun. In everyday talk people more often say she was so , or he talked as if we worked for him. Writers keep imperiousness when they want to name the attitude itself, not just one sharp sentence.
專橫;盛氣凌人
組成From imperious + -ness. -ness is an old English ending that turns an adjective into a noun naming the quality.
同家族的字
- imperiousthe adjective this noun is built from
- imperiouslythe adverb: doing something in this proud, ordering way
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
imperiousnessnoun
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The quality of being imperious
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。