Insistence - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ɪnˈsɪstəns|
Brit.
|ɪnˈsɪst(ə)ns|
noun
- continual and persistent demands
- the state of demanding notice or attention (syn: insistency, press, pressure)
- the state of demanding notice or attention (syn: insistency, press, pressure)
the insistence of their hunger
- the act of insisting on something (syn: insistency)insistence on grammatical correctness is a conservative position
Extra examples
He spoke with great insistence of the need for reform.
We resent your insistence that the debt should be paid at once.
At her father's insistence, she joined them for a drink.
...a critic's dogmatic insistence that abstract expressionism is the only school of 20th century art worthy of serious study...
It is at his insistence that I shall continue my rural speculations.
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