Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PER'EMP-TO-RI-NESS
PER'EMP-TO-RI-NESS, n.
Positiveness; absolute decision; dogmatism. Peremptoriness is of two sorts; one, a magisterialness in matters of opinion; the other, a positiveness in matters of fact. – Gov. of the Tongue.
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