| 单词 | insisting |
| 释义 | ▪ I. insisting, vbl. n.|ɪnˈsɪstɪŋ|
[f. insist v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb insist; insistence.
1598Florio, Insistenza, a persisting, an insisting. 1638F. Junius Paint. of Ancients 26 A custome of insisting upon any one intended Imagination. 1866Sat. 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.
1727Bailey vol. II s.v., The Angles of any Segment are said to be insisting or standing upon the Arch of another Segment below. 1823P. Nicholson Pract. Builder 219 A bressummer, where it resists a transverse insisting weight. 1879Sir 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.
1611Florio, Insistente, insisting, persisting. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian xxiii. (1824) 658 A yet more insisting voice. 1832Moore 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.
1880G. Meredith Tragic Com. xii. (1892) 174 Her father did not let the occasion slip to speak insistingly. 1892Blackw. Mag. CLI. 397/2, ‘I forbid you’, she called out, insistingly. |
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