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insistence

[in-sis-tuhns]

noun

the act or fact of insisting.

the quality of being insistent.

Origin:
1605–15; insist + -ence

Related forms

non·in·sist·ence, noun

o·ver·in·sist·ence, noun

su·per·in·sist·ence, noun

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insistent (ɪnˈsɪstənt)

—*adj*
1.	making continual and persistent demands
2.	demanding notice or attention; compelling: the insistent cry of a bird

in'sistence

—n

in'sistency

—n

in'sistently

—*adv*

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"The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father."

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