Difference between overconfident-peremptory and peremptory
peremptory
Definitions
adjective
- offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
- not allowing contradiction or refusal
- putting an end to all debate or action
Examples
To put it in religious language, the scientist is answerable to a very stern and peremptory magisterium, the magisterium of Nature herself.
Yes, -- and, to confirm my suspicions, here rattle in the drums and pipe in the fifes, wooing us to get up, _get up_, with music too peremptory to be harmonious.
Dr Barbara was able to switch from peremptory schoolmistress to doting mother in a way that always disarmed him.
