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Almost all were devoted to the traditions of the German military and infuriated by Hitler's peremptory directives from on high.
preemptory (either peremptory or preemptive, the context did not reveal which) Alexander Haig, MacNeil/Lehrer 19 December 1994
There is no internal cross reference to 5.24 B, where the notions of Permission and Possibility are given peremptory coverage (though there are six citations), and no helpful comment is offered about their interchangeability in contemporary usage or what was, formerly, their distinction in formal contexts.
I was summarily turned down in a peremptory letter that questioned the possible usefulness of such an enterprise.