"commandingly" meaning in English

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          "text": "And yet, somehow, did Ahab—in his own proper self, as daily, hourly, and every instant, commandingly revealed to his subordinates,—Ahab seemed an independent lord […]",
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          "ref": "1927 May, Virginia Woolf, chapter 4, in To the Lighthouse (Uniform Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf), new edition, London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, […], published 1930, →OCLC, part I (The Window), page 34:",
          "text": "She could see it all so clearly, so commandingly, when she looked: it was when she took her brush in hand that the whole thing changed.",
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          "ref": "2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 5, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:",
          "text": "“Delightful idea,” said Lady Partridge. […] / “It is, I believe, an irresistible one,” said Lipscomb, laying his left hand commandingly on the table.",
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          "ref": "2007 June 20, Katharine Q. Seelye, “Former First Couple mimics TV’s former First Couple”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:",
          "text": "“I ordered for the table,” she says, commandingly.",
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        "In a commanding fashion."
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          "text": "“Delightful idea,” said Lady Partridge. […] / “It is, I believe, an irresistible one,” said Lipscomb, laying his left hand commandingly on the table.",
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