Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of insisting; urgent or persistent maintenance of an opinion, principle, right, or the like; perseverance in pressing or supporting anything.
- noun Persevering action; demonstrative persistence; pertinacity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of insisting, or being urgent or pressing; the act of dwelling upon as of special importance; persistence; urgency.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the state of being
insistent - noun an
urgent demand - noun fencing The forcing of an attack through the
parry , using strength
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of demanding notice or attention
- noun continual and persistent demands
- noun the act of insisting on something
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Examples
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This insistence is the more striking because a number of critics — most passionately and recently Harold Bloom — have associated Shakespeare with the rejected Falstaff, and Hal with the narcissistic young Earl of Southampton, whom Shakespeare may have courted in the first part of his love-sonnet sequence.
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This insistence is the more striking because a number of critics — most passionately and recently Harold Bloom — have associated Shakespeare with the rejected Falstaff, and Hal with the narcissistic young Earl of Southampton, whom Shakespeare may have courted in the first part of his love-sonnet sequence.
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They told him, with a certain insistence, that was half appeal for belief, half challenge for contradiction, how much they were going to enjoy their idleness.
TOO MUCH GOLD 2010
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To this end, Israel's challenge and insistence is a deliberate attempt to change the law.
Noura Erakat: Collective Punishment or Not, Gaza Blockade Illegal Noura Erakat 2010
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But the administration's "ideological insistence" is one that Thiessen's former boss presumably shared, since the Bush administration prosecuted hundreds of terrorism-related cases in civilian court, with an 88 percent conviction rate according to NYU's Center for Law and Security.
Thiessen's misleading attack on due process Adam Serwer 2010
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"She does not wish to speak with you, and your insistence is insult."
Chapter 40 2010
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To this end, Israel's challenge and insistence is a deliberate attempt to change the law.
Noura Erakat: Collective Punishment or Not, Gaza Blockade Illegal Noura Erakat 2010
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To this end, Israel's challenge and insistence is a deliberate attempt to change the law.
Noura Erakat: Collective Punishment or Not, Gaza Blockade Illegal Noura Erakat 2010
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To this end, Israel's challenge and insistence is a deliberate attempt to change the law.
Noura Erakat: Collective Punishment or Not, Gaza Blockade Illegal Noura Erakat 2010
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They told him, with a certain insistence, that was half appeal for belief, half challenge for contradiction, how much they were going to enjoy their idleness.
Too Much Gold 2010
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