▪ I. insisting, vbl. n.
(ɪnˈsɪstɪŋ)
[f. insist v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb insist; insistence.
| 1598 Florio, Insistenza, a persisting, an insisting. 1638 F. Junius Paint. of Ancients 26 A custome of insisting upon any one intended Imagination. 1866 Sat. Rev. 22 Sept. 367/1 There is an altogether unreasonable insisting upon graces and airs and fine manners. |
▪ II. inˈsisting, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. Resting, superincumbent: cf. insist v. 1.
| 1727 Bailey vol. II s.v., The Angles of any Segment are said to be insisting or standing upon the Arch of another Segment below. 1823 P. Nicholson Pract. Builder 219 A bressummer, where it resists a transverse insisting weight. 1879 Sir G. Scott Lect. Archit. I. 146 Making the bases and capitals face in the direction of the insisting arch-rib. |
2. That insists; that dwells urgently or pertinaciously upon a point.
| 1611 Florio, Insistente, insisting, persisting. 1797 Mrs. Radcliffe Italian xxiii. (1824) 658 A yet more insisting voice. 1832 Moore Diary 1–24 Mar., in Mem. (1854) VI. 249 A fancy..which lately took a more serious and insisting shape. |
Hence inˈsistingly adv., with insistence, insistently.
| 1880 G. Meredith Tragic Com. xii. (1892) 174 Her father did not let the occasion slip to speak insistingly. 1892 Blackw. Mag. CLI. 397/2, ‘I forbid you’, she called out, insistingly. |