Difference between overconfident-peremptory and peremptory

peremptory

Definitions

adjective

  1. offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
  2. not allowing contradiction or refusal
  3. 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

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