authoritativeness

Who can help smiling at this combination of pompous authoritativeness and wretched short-sightedness?

It was the first time in his five years of office that one of his congregants had suggested such authoritativeness on his part.

There was likewise nothing startling in Bacons view of the Fathers, and their knowledge and authoritativeness.

Authoritativeness is characteristic of His mode of teaching.

Morality is morality, just because it possesses an absolute authoritativeness which they lack.