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INSISTING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Continual and persistent demands
Synonyms:
insistence; insisting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("insisting" is a kind of...):
demand (an urgent or peremptory request)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "insisting"):
purism (scrupulous or exaggerated insistence on purity or correctness (especially in language))
Derivation:
insist (beg persistently and urgently)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb insist