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authority
Part of Speech: noun
Results: 8
1. Government; the persons or the body exercising power or command; as, the local authorities of the States; the military authorities.
2. The power derived from opinion, respect, or esteem; influence of character, office, or station, or mental or moral superiority, and the like; claim to be believed or obeyed; as, an historian of no authority; a magistrate of great authority.
3. That which, or one who, is claimed or appealed to in support of opinions, actions, measures, etc.
5. A precedent; a decision of a court, an official declaration, or an opinion, saying, or statement worthy to be taken as a precedent.
7. Justification; warrant.
Examples of usage:
- On the other hand, we could not forget the authority of the book. - "Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry", Thomas Davis Commentator: T. W. Rolleston.
- By my- Miss Tabor's authority, of course. - "The Professor's Mystery", Wells Hastings Brian Hooker.
- The new authority of his father's love for him captured him. - "In the Wilderness", Robert Hichens.