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- 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.†
Chpt 10 *insistence = demand or persist
- So insistent was the thought that for a time he did not realize that Mrs. Novak was clamoring, "She is dead?†
Chpt 15insistent = persistent or continuing or firm
Definitions:
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(1)
(insistent) persistent or continuing or firm -- especially in maintaining a view or demanding something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)