commandingly

Adverb

1. In a commanding fashion.
   • 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 […] - 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or,...
   • She could see it all so clearly, so commandingly, when she looked: it was when she took her brush in hand that the whole thing changed. - 1927 May, Virginia Woolf, chapter 4, in To the Lighthouse (Uniform Edition of the...
   • “Delightful idea,” said Lady Partridge. […] / “It is, I believe, an irresistible one,” said Lipscomb, laying his left hand commandingly on the table. - 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 5, in The Line of Beauty […],...