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Insistently :: Insistently (adv.) In an insistent manner.

Dormant :: Dormant (a.) Sleeping; as, a dormant animal; hence, not in action or exercise; quiescent; at rest; in abeyance; not disclosed, asserted, or insisted on; as, dormant passions; dormant claims or titles..

Urgency :: Urgency (n.) The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion..

Cognizance :: Cognizance (n.) A form of defense in the action of replevin, by which the defendant insists that the goods were lawfully taken, as a distress, by defendant, acting as servant for another..

Insistent :: Insistent (a.) See Incumbent.

Ritualism :: Ritualism (n.) Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices o

Successive :: Successionist (n.) A person who insists on the importance of a regular succession of events, offices, etc.; especially (Eccl.), one who insists that apostolic succession alone is valid..

Insisture :: Insisture (n.) A dwelling or standing on something; fixedness; persistence.

Insisted :: Insisted (imp. & p. p.) of Insis.

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

Urge :: Urge (v. t.) To present in an urgent manner; to press upon attention; to insist upon; as, to urge an argument; to urge the necessity of a case..

Insist :: Insist (v. i.) To stand or rest; to find support; -- with in, on, or upon..

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To rest; to depend; to rely; to stand; to insist.

Waive :: Waive (v. t.) To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.

Urge :: Urge (v. i.) To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.

Insistent :: Insistent (a.) Insisting; persistent; persevering.

Insist :: Insist (v. i.) To take a stand and refuse to give way; to hold to something firmly or determinedly; to be persistent, urgent, or pressing; to persist in demanding; -- followed by on, upon, or that; as, he insisted on these conditions; he insisted on going at once; he insists that he must have money..

Insistent :: Insistent (a.) Standing or resting on something; as, an insistent wall..

Require :: Require (v. t.) To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property..

Consist :: Consist (v. i.) To insist; -- followed by on.

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