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

Waiver :: Waiver (n.) The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege..

Insistent :: Insistent (a.) See Incumbent.

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

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

Insisting :: Insisting (p. pr. & vb. n.) 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. i.) To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.

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..

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

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..

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.

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.) Insisting; persistent; persevering.

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..

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

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

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

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

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