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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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This rich, authoritative biography is written by an American Russophile who knew him personally.
Law is based on judge-made precedents, authoritative legal texts, and legislation.
The uneasy ceasefire between an authoritative church and an ascendant political class may be at an end.
Since I revealed the big scoop, I have had it reconfirmed by yet another highly authoritative source.
In the past it took months, if not years, for a papal legate to travel over the Alps to deliver authoritative Roman decisions.
He speaks so quietly and so modestly that it is hard to envisage him as the authoritative playmaker that he is.

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