peremptoriness

peremptory +‎ -ness

peremptoriness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being peremptory
   • 1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter 7, in The Mayor of Casterbridge‎:

     Mrs. Stannidge thereupon said with a considerate peremptoriness that she and her mother had better take their own suppers if they meant to have any.

   • 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 23, in Billy Budd‎, London: Constable & Co.:

     For suddenly the drum beat to quarters, which familiar sound happening at least twice every day, had upon the present occasion a signal peremptoriness in it.