insistence

[In*sist·ence]

Insistence is when someone persists in forcefully asking for or requiring something. A parent's insistence might be the only reason an unmotivated teenager sits down and does his homework.

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The quality of insisting, or being urgent or pressing; the act of dwelling upon as of special importance; persistence; urgency.

Noun
urgently demanding attention; "the insistence of their hunger"; "he pressed his demand with considerable instancy"

Noun
continual and persistent demands

Noun
the state of urgently demanding notice or attention; "the press of business matters"


n.
The quality of insisting, or being urgent or pressing; the act of dwelling upon as of special importance; persistence; urgency.


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.

The quality of insisting, or being urgent or pressing; the act of dwelling upon as of special importance; persistence; urgency.

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Usage Examples

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

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Other Usage Examples

There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.

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