Definition of "insistence" []

• The state of being insistent (noun)
• An urgent demand (noun)
• The forcing of an attack through the parry, using strength (noun)

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• "This insistence is the more striking because a number of critics — most passionately and recently Harold Bloom — have associated Shakespeare with the rejected Falstaff, and Hal with the narcissistic young Earl of Southampton, whom Shakespeare may have courted in the first part of his love-sonnet sequence."
• "To this end, Israel's challenge and insistence is a deliberate attempt to change the law."
• "They told him, with a certain insistence, that was half appeal for belief, half challenge for contradiction, how much they were going to enjoy their idleness."