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The state of urgently demanding notice or attention
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insistence
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Word definitions for insistence in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Insistence \In*sist"ence\, n. The quality of insisting, or being urgent or pressing; the act of dwelling upon as of special importance; persistence; urgency.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Middle French insister (see insist ) + -ence .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 the state of being insistent 2 an urgent demand 3 (context fencing English) The forcing of an attack through the parry, using strength
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB drop ▪ In its monthly reports, for instance, it has dropped its insistence that the threat of deflation has receded. ▪ There were indications last week that Yeltsin had dropped his insistence that this be a legally binding ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. continual and persistent demands [syn: insisting ] the state of urgently demanding notice or attention; "the press of business matters" [syn: imperativeness , insistency , press , pressure ] urgently demanding attention; "the insistence of their hunger"; ...
Usage examples of insistence.
The very insistence on a single queen mother made the bees vulnerable if she died.
On the insistence of Opiz, Casanova continued his correspondence, but he passed over nothing more, neither in exact quotations from Latin authors, nor solecisms, nor lame reasonings.
At his insistence on this morning after the crime, the petty constable had taken the local cunning woman, old Mother Coddington, into custody.
No further mention was made about the clinic for the rest of the meal, yet the issue hung in the air with Damoclean insistence.
Augustine had spent more than thirty years battling the Donatists, he was dismayed to confront Christians he called the Pelagians who, despite many differences, as we shall see in Chapter 6, shared with the Donatists both a sectarian view of the church and an insistence on free will.
Eventually, a combination of sheer insistence and winning charm got her the final signature she needed to interview Dunst, awake or otherwise.
Known also as esoteric Buddhism because of its insistence on the secret transmission of its teachings, Tantrism came to hold a unique appeal for the aristocracy of the Heian court and provided a powerful stimulus to the arts in Japan during the ninth and tenth centuries.
New Leafs insistence on transferring Charles to another hospital was interesting, but only if it meant they were worried about the hospital beie discovering something.
The Madhyamika by his insistence on the sheer transcendence of the absolute and his refusal to identify it with anything met with in his experience is too abrupt and harsh.
Leorsabout their patterned skin and inability to produce body heat, and their insistence on virgin mates, not to mention their fierceness and cruelty and utter ruthlessness.
Its insistence on imagination mocks the thoughtlessness of experience in relation to the reality conceived by the mind.
Everything we might complain about in the computer -- its insistence upon dealing with abstractions, its reduction of the qualitative to a set of quantities, its insertion of a nonspatial but effective distance between users, its preference for unambiguous and efficiently manipulative relationships in all undertakings -- these computational traits have long been tendencies of our own thinking and behavior, especially as influenced by science.
At my insistence she had attired herself in a proper frock and flower-trimmed hat, and she looked like what she was notan innocent, well-bred young English lady.
She knew her journalism degree was rusty, thanks to Bruces pigheadedness and his insistence that he wear the pants in the family.
Poland, at the insistence of Foreign Minister Jozef Beck, who for the next twelve months will be a leading character in this narrative, took some 650 square miles of territory around Teschen, comprising a population of 228,000 inhabitants, of whom 133,000 were Czechs.