insistence

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the act of insisting on something

   Insistence on grammatical correctness is a conservative position.

2. 2
   noun

   the state of demanding notice or attention

   The insistence of their hunger.

3. 3
   noun

   The state of being insistent.

   He made gourd-rattles (known in ever so many parts of the world) in which he rattled dried seeds or small pebbles with a most beguiling and rain-like insistence[.].

4. 4
   noun

   continual and persistent demands

From Middle English insistence, derived from Old French insister (“to insist”). Compare Middle French insistance. Morphologically insist + -ence.

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