English

Adverb

commandingly ‎(not comparable)

1. In a commanding fashion.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter ,

     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, Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, Chapter 4,

     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, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 5,

     “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:

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