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peremptorily

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
peremptory /pəˈrɛm(p)t(ə)ri, ˈpɛrɪm-/

▶adjective

1 insisting on immediate attention or obedience; brusque and imperious.

2 Law not open to appeal or challenge; final.

– derivatives
peremptorily adverb,
peremptoriness noun.

– origin ME: via Anglo-Norman Fr. from L. peremptorius ‘deadly, decisive’, from perempt-, perimere ‘destroy, cut off’.

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