All 5 Uses

insistent
in
Growing Up, by Baker
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Three years in that job, which I would gladly have quit after the first day except for her insistence, produced at least one valuable result.†
Chpt 2 *

insistence = demand or persist
I attributed my success at school entirely to my mother's schoolteacher insistence on good grades and her constant help with my studies.†
Chpt 9
But she was insistent.†
Chpt 9

insistent = persistent or continuing or firm
He'd spent sixteen years in the Marines by then, but at Aunt Sister's insistence he gave up the Marine Corps and the two of them moved to Baltimore.†
Chpt 10

insistence = demand or persist
The house wasn't changed much since I'd first seen it forty years ago when Herb had bowed to my mother's insistence that Lombard Street was no place to raise Mary Leslie and spent a breathtaking $4,7oo for what I considered a palace.†
Chpt 18

Definitions:

(1) (insistent)
persistent or continuing or firm -- especially in maintaining a view or demanding something
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)