Insistence: alternatives and connections

The act of pleading for or supporting; work of advocating; intercession.

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To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily;…

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The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.

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Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity.

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To stand or rest; to find support; -- with in, on, or upon.

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To stand or rest; to find support; -- with in, on, or upon.

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Standing or resting on something; as, an insistent wall.

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Standing or resting on something; as, an insistent wall.

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of Insist

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An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to mar…

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The act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed; compression; a squeezing; a crushing; as, a pressure of the hand.

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