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n. the state of being insistent

n. an urgent demand

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

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

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

n. Persevering action; demonstrative persistence; pertinacity.

n. the state of demanding notice or attention

n. continual and persistent demands

n. 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."

urgency    protagonism    advocacy   

insist   

persistence    urgency    statement    obstinacy   

assistance    coexistence    consistence    distance    existence   

persistence    obstinacy    emphasis    resolve    determination