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# {{context|uncountable|lang=en}} The [[power]] to [[enforce]] rules or give orders. |
# {{context|uncountable|lang=en}} The [[power]] to [[enforce]] rules or give orders. |
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#: ''She lost all her respect and '''authority''' after turning up drunk to the meeting.'' |
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#: ''Respect my '''authority'''!'' |
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#* '''1883''', {{w|Howard Pyle}}, ''{{w|The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood}}'' [[s:The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood/Chapter V|Chapter V]] |
#* '''1883''', {{w|Howard Pyle}}, ''{{w|The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood}}'' [[s:The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood/Chapter V|Chapter V]] |
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#*: But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in '''authority''' being very wroth with him. |
#*: But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in '''authority''' being very wroth with him. |
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# {{context|used in singular or plural form|lang=en}} Persons in command; specifically, [[government]]. |
# {{context|used in singular or plural form|lang=en}} Persons in command; specifically, [[government]]. |
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#*{{quote-magazine|date=2013-08-10|volume=408|issue=8848|magazine={{w|The Economist}} |
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|title=[http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21583277-worlds-biggest-polluter-going-green-it-needs-speed-up-transition-can-china21583270-new-zealands-plan-regulate-designer-drugs-better-trying-ban-them-and-failing-new A new prescription] |
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|passage=No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the '''authorities''' to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.}} |
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# {{context|countable|lang=en}} A person accepted as a source of reliable information on a subject. |
# {{context|countable|lang=en}} A person accepted as a source of reliable information on a subject. |
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#* '''1930''' September 18, Albert Einstein, as quoted in ''Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel'' (1988) by Banesh Hoffman |
#* '''1930''' September 18, Albert Einstein, as quoted in ''Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel'' (1988) by Banesh Hoffman |
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#*: To punish me for my contempt of '''authority''', Fate has made me an '''authority''' myself. |
#*: To punish me for my contempt of '''authority''', Fate has made me an '''authority''' myself. |
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Revision as of 22:27, 28 September 2013
English
Alternative forms
- authourity (obsolete)
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English (deprecated template usage) autorite, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French (deprecated template usage) auctorité, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin stem of (deprecated template usage) auctoritas, from (deprecated template usage) auctor
Pronunciation
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Noun
authority (countable and uncountable, plural authorities)
- (deprecated template usage) (uncountable) The power to enforce rules or give orders.
- 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V
- But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.
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- 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V
- (deprecated template usage) (used in singular or plural form) Persons in command; specifically, government.
- (deprecated template usage) (countable) A person accepted as a source of reliable information on a subject.
- 1930 September 18, Albert Einstein, as quoted in Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (1988) by Banesh Hoffman
- To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "lang" is not used by this template.
- 1930 September 18, Albert Einstein, as quoted in Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (1988) by Banesh Hoffman
Derived terms
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Translations
power to enforce rules or give orders
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persons in command; specifically, government
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person accepted as a source of reliable information on a subject
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