insistences

Noun

insistence (countable and uncountable, plural insistences)

1. The state of being insistent.
   • He made gourd-rattles (known in ever so many parts of the world) in which he rattled dried seeds or small pebbles with a most beguiling and rain-like insistence[.]1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 72
2. An urgent demand.
3. The forcing of an attack through the parry, using strength.