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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



... with Emma was always engrossing. The mere practice and etiquette of it brought the gentlewoman in her into a lovely salience. Her hands and eyes became magical, her talk light and constant without insistency. A symbolist might imagine eternal correspondence between the amber brew and her sunny hair. It was easy to adore Emma at tea, and generally she did not resent a discreetly pronounced homage. But this afternoon she grew almost petulant ...
— The Collectors • Frank Jewett Mather


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


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