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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

insistency en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The quality of being insistent.
    • His son, Denardo Coleman, played drums with hard insistency, even bombast (at bright tempos, his ride-cymbal patterns were rivetlike), but he also kept closely attuned to the flow of improvisation. 2008 March 31, Nate Chinen, “Clear-Cut Case of the Blues, in a Bebop Mode”, in New York Times:

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