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What does authoritative mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word authoritative? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Arising or originating from a figure of authority
  2. Highly accurate or definitive; treated or worthy of treatment as a scholarly authority
  3. Having a commanding style.
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The uneasy ceasefire between an authoritative church and an ascendant political class may be at an end.
Clinic staff may be seen as authoritative sources of prevention information.
My truck doesn't have sports-car driving dynamics but it has a kind of authoritative languor about it, just kind of suavely rolling along.
An authoritative German voice crisped the air, asserting itself above the general drone.
You may regard some decisions as misconceived and wrong-headed, but we must have an authoritative structure to preserve the rule of law.
Law is based on judge-made precedents, authoritative legal texts, and legislation.

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