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Insistency   Listen
noun
insistency  n.  
1.
The state of urgently demanding notice or attention; insistence.
Synonyms: imperativeness, insistence, press, pressure.
2.
The quality of not being ignorable.
Synonyms: imperativeness, insistence.





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"Insistency" Quotes from Famous Books



... national military establishments at West Point and Annapolis are intended to accomplish in the way of preparing a few citizens for useful service in times of war, it is the purpose of this popular civil institution, with patriotic insistency and through all available efficiencies, to aid in accomplishing through provisions for properly preparing all citizens for the highest service of their ...
— The Arena - Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 • Various
... till his thin, pale face became more full and firm. As he mended she had to meet that request of his, advanced with even stronger insistency. ...
— A Changed Man and Other Tales • Thomas Hardy
... inspirited by the prospect of showing her beauty in public, and conscious tonight of all the added enhancements of dress, the insistency of Trenor's gaze merged itself in the general stream of admiring looks of which she felt herself the centre. Ah, it was good to be young, to be radiant, to glow with the sense of slenderness, strength and elasticity, of well-poised lines and happy tints, to ...
— House of Mirth • Edith Wharton


Words linked to "Insistency" :   urgency, advocacy, protagonism, pressure, insistent, imperativeness


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