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What is the noun for authoritativeness?

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authorization
  1. (uncountable) Permission.
  2. (countable) An act of authorizing.
  3. (countable) (A document giving) formal sanction, permission or warrant.
  4. (government) Permission, possibly limited, to spend funds for a specific budgetary purpose.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “At no time did he acknowledge a need to obtain congressional authorization.”
      “Generals were given the authorization to make their own decisions based on the situation at hand.”
      “The Commissioner signed the authorization to the Disbursing Clerk of the Treasury, directing him to pay the refund.”
authority
  1. (uncountable) The power to enforce rules or give orders.
  2. (used in singular or plural form) Persons in command; specifically, government.
  3. (countable) A person accepted as a source of reliable information on a subject.
  4. Government-owned agency which runs a revenue-generating activity.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “Vice Admiral Holdo wasted no time in exerting her authority over trigger-happy flyboys like Poe Dameron.”
      “Freily considered herself an authority on nutrition and recommended a diet based purely on bananas.”
      “I have no reason to doubt his authority in the field of stage history, but his authority ceases in the field of aesthetic speculation.”
authoritarian
  1. One who commands absolute obedience to his or her authority.
  2. One who follows and is excessively obedient to authority.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Should we expect an authoritarian who is dying to exhibit more compassion or conscience than a robust authoritarian in the prime of life?”
authoritativeness
  1. The quality of possessing authority.
  2. The quality of trustworthiness and reliability.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Her authoritative tone and vast knowledge on the subject added to the authoritativeness of her argument.”
      “The authoritativeness of the book's research lent credibility to its conclusions.”
      “Parental support, warmth, and authoritativeness are also connected with positive outcomes in adolescents.”
authoritarianism
  1. A form of government in which the governing body has absolute, or almost absolute, control. Typically this control is maintained by force, and little heed is paid to public opinion or the judicial system.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The country has successfully weathered the painful transition from authoritarianism to participatory government.”
      “He hits on the tight connection in everything we're seeing between incompetence, state mendacity and incipient authoritarianism.”
      “I want increased liberty, equality and fraternity, not a diminution of democracy as we are tiptoed into totalitarianism and authoritarianism.”
authorisation
  1. Alternative spelling of authorization
  2. Examples:
    1. “Now all I have to do is wait to see whether they've managed to get the authorisation codes right.”
      “Can powers granted by an enabling Act only be enlarged or modified by express words of authorisation?”
      “It is sufficient if one of them has the authorisation because the authorisation seems to act in rem, not in personam.”
authoritarianist
  1. A proponent of authoritarianism
authorizer
  1. One who, or that which, authorizes.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Indeed, Dr. Leveque's supporters point out that there is no scandal in his top ranking as a marijuana-card authorizer.”
      “For the AUT function, the authorization code is given to the employee if the employee is a regular on-line pay authorizer.”
      “A message will appear notifying the authorizer if there are further transactions to authorize.”
authoriser
  1. Alternative form of authorizer
authoritie
  1. Obsolete spelling of authority
  2. Examples:
    1. “But the Papistes are opposite and contrarie in very many substantiall pointes of religion, and cannot but wishe the Popes authoritie and popish religion to be established.”
authourity
  1. Obsolete form of authority.
authorities
  1. plural of authority
  2. The bodies that have political or administrative power and control in a particular sphere
  3. The bodies that enforce law and order or provide a public service
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The authorities are following up on the report and have yet to determine if the abductors are pirates or terrorists.”
      Authorities made the area off limits to fishing, leaving hundreds out of work.”
      Authorities have never publicly accounted for his whereabouts during the time of the alleged motel encounter.”
authoritarianisms
authoritarianists
  1. plural of authoritarianist
authoritarians
  1. plural of authoritarian
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  3. Examples:
    1. “That's normally been the strategy of the extreme right and the authoritarians.”
      “He was against colonialism and neo-colonialism in all their forms, against racism, elites, and authoritarians of all varieties.”
      “One does not have to go back to ancient Athens to grasp the depressing fact that most authoritarians do not surrender power voluntarily.”
authorizations
  1. plural of authorization
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  3. Examples:
    1. “If Congress acts and the president signs the annual budget authorizations, then you'll see how meaningless that deal really is.”
      “All were open, written, sovereign authorizations by supreme authorities, and all employed a common medieval legal formula and language.”
      “The Committee and the City met on September 21, at which time the Committee presented the City with copies of the authorizations signed by the Sandy Beach leaseholders.”
authorisations
  1. plural of authorisation
  2. Examples:
    1. “It sets up a system of permissible interceptions with warrants or authorisations.”
      “The only independent control of the powers comes from the Home Secretary's supervision of authorisations.”
      “Customers will sign authorisations and receipts on a touch-sensitive pad.”
authorizers
  1. plural of authorizer
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Ohio allows 70 groups, including universities, nonprofits and many unconventional agencies to be authorizers.”
authorisers
  1. plural of authoriser
authourities
  1. plural of authourity
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