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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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You may regard some decisions as misconceived and wrong-headed, but we must have an authoritative structure to preserve the rule of law.
Clinic staff may be seen as authoritative sources of prevention information.
In the past it took months, if not years, for a papal legate to travel over the Alps to deliver authoritative Roman decisions.
An authoritative German voice crisped the air, asserting itself above the general drone.
She managed to be both gentle and authoritative and I trusted her to bring you into the world.
This rich, authoritative biography is written by an American Russophile who knew him personally.

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