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- At his insistence, she would wake him every day at daybreak, almost weeping out of pity for his weak, exhausted body.†
*insistence = demand or persist
- Despite this, for weeks he would get confused whenever he was entrusted with a task during an operation; Dr. Mansour's words would spring insistently into his mind, his hands would shake, and he would have to expend extraordinary effort not to botch things.†
insistently = in a persistent or firm manner
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)