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Commandingly

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com·mand·ing  (k-mndng)
adj.
1. Having command; controlling.
2. Dominating, as by magnitude or position: took a commanding lead at the polls; a commanding view of the ocean.
com·manding·ly adv.
com·manding·ness n.


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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; the Parsee but his slave.
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Knightley seemed determined to be heard in his turn, for most resolutely and commandingly did he say,
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