insistiveadj.
rare.
Having the character or quality of insisting.
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the mind > will > decision > perseverance or persistence > [adjective] > having character or quality of insisting
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the mind > language > statement > insistence or persistence > [adjective] > having the character or quality of
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a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Richard II lii, in Poems (1878) III. 150 They many things perpend; and some they Cull Insistive Articles.
1892 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 10 Mar. Their women folks are the most brazenly insistive and picturesquely attired fortune tellers in all the world.
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