insistencyn.
/ɪnˈsɪstənsi/ The quality of being insistent; perseverance in dwelling upon, pressing, or maintaining something; urgency, pertinacity; also, an instance of this.
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the mind > language > statement > insistence or persistence > [noun]
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the mind > will > decision > perseverance or persistence > [noun] > insistence
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1859 W. Anderson Discourses (1860) 236 The faithfulness of the preacher's insistency.
1878 H. B. Stowe Poganuc People iv. 41 Its ticking began to strike..with a nervous insistancy on her ear.
1881 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 400 Sent a gentleman from France to invite him thither with great insistency.
1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders xxvii. 189 The terrible insistencies of society.
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