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Definition of Authority

Authority Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority of a court. Government; the persons or the body exercising power or command; as, the local authorities of the States; the military authorities. The power derived from opinion, respect, or esteem; influence of character, office, or station, or mental or moral superiority, and the like; claim to be believed or obeyed; as, an historian of no authority; a magistrate of great authority. That which, or one who, is claimed or appealed to in support of opinions, actions, measures, etc. Testimony; witness. A precedent; a decision of a court, an official declaration, or an opinion, saying, or statement worthy to be taken as a precedent. A book containing such a statement or opinion, or the author of the book. Justification; warrant. Related Definitions: Act, An, And, Appealed, As, Author, Authorities, Authority, Authorization, Be, Believed, Body, Book, Buy, Character, Children, Claim, Claimed, Command, Containing, Court, Decision, Declaration, Derived, Dominion, Esteem, Exercised, Exercising, From, Government, Great, His, Historian, In, Influence, Is, Jurisdiction, Justification, Legal, Like, Local, Magistrate, Mental, Military, Moral, No, Obeyed, Of, Office, Official, One, Opinion, Or, Over, Person, Power, Precedent, Prince, Respect, Right, Rightful, Saying, Statement, Station, Such, Superiority, Support, Taken, Testimony, That, The, To, Trust, Virtue, Warrant, Which, Who, Witness, Worthy

Authority Quotations Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people. Thomas Jefferson What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it. Anita Hill The faith that stands on authority is not faith. Ralph Waldo Emerson The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it. Albert Einstein

Authority Translations authority in Afrikaans is gesag authority in Danish is autoritet authority in Dutch is autoriteit, gezag authority in Finnish is arvovalta authority in Latin is imperium, auctoritas, auctorita, regnum, vox vocis authority in Norwegian is myndighet authority in Portuguese is autoridade authority in Spanish is autoridad authority in Swedish is auktoritet, befogenhet

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