insistentadj.n.
/ɪnˈsɪstənt/ A. adj.
1. Standing or resting on something. rare.
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the world > space > relative position > high position > position upon > [adjective]
superjacent1578
incumbent1624
insistent1624
incumbing1629
superincumbent1664
insisting1727
overlying1831
riding1859–60
1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 19 That the breadth of the Substruction be at least double to the insistent Wall.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Insistent, resting upon anything.
a1886 S. Ferguson Ogham Inscript. (1887) 125 Parallel straight lines insistent on and dependent from others.
2. Dwelling firmly on something asserted, demanded, etc.; persistent, urgent. Hence, Enforcing attention, obtruding itself upon the attention.
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the mind > language > statement > insistence or persistence > [adjective]
insisting1611
insistent1868
society > communication > manifestation > manifestness > [adjective] > strikingly
notablea1398
staring?a1425
loud1535
gross1581
strong1583
signal1591
conspicuous1604
marked1620
remarked1623
ranka1640
signalized1652
bold1678
flaming1706
glaring1706
telegraphic1809
salient1841
howling1865
insistent1868
rampageous1889
1868 ‘G. Eliot’ Spanish Gypsy iii. 234 The eye of day, The insistent summer sun, seems pitiless.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iv. xxx. 257 He got no answer, and..repeated his question in an insistent tone.
1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xiii. 187 The aristocracy had become more insistent upon the privilege of birth.
1880 T. Hardy Trumpet-major III. xxxii. 56 The solitude was rendered yet more insistent by the silence of the mill-wheel.
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Oct. 1/2 The insistent facts of sin, suffering, and misery.
1893 F. C. Selous Trav. S.-E. Afr. 50 The natives..were very insistent that I should try and shoot one.
3. Ornithology. [ < French insistant.] Applied to the hind toe of birds when it is inserted so high that it touches the ground only with its tip: opposed to incumbent.
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1886 in New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon
B. n.
An insistent person.
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the mind > will > decision > perseverance or persistence > [noun] > insistence > insistent person
insister1611
insistent1868
1868 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea (1877) IV. xiii. 408 Insistants..approaching him with their urgency.
1881 R. C. Praed Policy & Passion I. 17 ‘We don't mean to let you clear out’..cried one of these insistents.
Derivatives
inˈsistently adv. in an insistent manner, with insistence.
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the mind > language > statement > insistence or persistence > [adverb]
insistently1873
insistingly1880
the mind > will > decision > perseverance or persistence > [adverb] > insistently
with residence?c1450
instantly1477
insistently1873
insistingly1880
1873 R. Broughton Nancy II. 117 He earnestly and insistantly begs of me to gather all my people..around me.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. v. xxxvi. 86 ‘Then tell me what better I can do’, said Gwendolen, insistently.
1879 H. James Hawthorne 114 The interest of the story lies..in the situation which is insistently kept before us.
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