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
Novi hominem tanquam te: his humour is lofty, his discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, his eye ambitious, his gait majestical, and his general behaviour vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical.
We invite the Tribunal to make a peremptory order in respect of those matters.
peremptory commands
