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Definition
persistent or continuing or firm — especially in maintaining a view or demanding something
- He admired Dean Silva's insistence on the physician's immediate service to mankind, but he could not forget the cool ascetic hours in the laboratory.Chapter 10 (89% in)
- So insistent was the thought that for a time he did not realize that Mrs. Novak was clamoring, "She is dead?Chapter 15 (79% in)
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