peremptoriness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PER'EMPTORINESS, noun Positiveness; absolute decision; dogmatism. Peremptoriness is of two sorts; one, a magisterialness in matters of opinion; the other, a positiveness in matters of fact.
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