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insistency|ɪnˈsɪstənsɪ|
Also -ancy.
[f. as prec.: see -ency.]
The quality of being insistent; perseverance in dwelling upon, pressing, or maintaining something; urgency, pertinacity; also, an instance of this.
1859W. Anderson Disc. (1860) 236 The faithfulness of the preacher's insistency. 1878Mrs. Stowe Poganuc P. iv. (1879) 30 Its ticking began to strike..with a nervous insistancy on her ear. 1881Blackw. Mag. Mar. 400 Sent a gentleman from France to invite him thither with great insistency. 1887T. Hardy Woodlanders xxvii. 189 The terrible insistencies of society. |