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Etymology

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dictating +‎ -ly

Adverb

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dictatingly (not comparable)

  1. So as to dictate or give an order.
    • 2013, Fátima Vieira, Dystopia(n) Matters: On the Page, on Screen, on Stage, page 312:
      [] at the end of the play when the voice coldly and dictatingly informs the soldiers that there is another war to fight in another part of the world []