commandingly

English

Etymology

commanding +‎ -ly

Adverb

commandingly (not comparable)

1. In a commanding fashion.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter ?”, in 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:

     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 […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →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 New York Times‎^[1]:

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