magisterialness

English

Etymology

magisterial +‎ -ness

Noun

magisterialness (uncountable)

  1. The quality or state of being magisterial; authoritativeness.
    • 2008, Peter Holland, Shakespeare, Sound and Screen, page 380:
      You frequently can't prove what you're saying about someone (just as in real life), so you may be tempted to replace reliance on chapter and verse with the magisterialness that comes from a lifetime of critical thinking and teaching.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for magisterialness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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