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imperatively

Adverb

imperatively

In an imperative manner.
- 1625, John Donne, Sermon preached 26 April, 1625, in Fifty Sermons, Volume 2, London: M.F., J. Marriot and R. Royston, 1649, Sermon 33, p. 299,
  […] being a mother, and having the dignity of a Parent upon her, she does not proceed supplicatorily, she does not pray them, nor intreat them, she does not say, I would you would go forth, and I would you would looke out, but it is Egredimini, & videte, imperatively, authoritatively, Do it, you must do it: […]
- 1849, Charlotte Brontë, Shirley (novel), Chapter 36,
  Improvement is imperatively needed.
- 1903, [w:Samuel Butler (novelist)|Samuel Butler]], The Way of All Flesh, ch 69:
  If a man has been possessed by devils for long enough they will rend him as they leave him, however imperatively they may have been cast out. Ernest did not stay long where he was, for he feared each moment that his father and mother would come out.
- 1904, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, Part 1, Chapter 7,
  The military band happened to be braying operatic selections on the plaza just then, and twice he raised his hand imperatively for silence in order to listen to a favourite passage.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Chapter 13,
  --Come here, Tommy, his sister called imperatively. At once! And you, Jacky, for shame to throw poor Tommy in the dirty sand. Wait till I catch you for that.
- 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, New York: Scribner, Chapter 1, pp. 11-12,
  […] wedging his tense arm imperatively under mine, Tom Buchanan compelled me from the room as though he were moving a checker to another square.

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