noun. The act of insisting; urgent or persistent maintenance of an opinion, principle, right, or the like; perseverance in pressing or supporting anything.

noun. Persevering action; demonstrative persistence; pertinacity.

noun. The quality of insisting, or being urgent or pressing; the act of dwelling upon as of special importance; persistence; urgency.

noun. the state of being insistent

noun. an urgent demand

noun. The forcing of an attack through the parry, using strength

noun. the state of demanding notice or attention

noun. continual and persistent demands

noun. the act of insisting on something

"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."

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