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Meanings of imperativeness in English

Portuguese
pressão
Catalan
insistència
Spanish
insistencia

The state of demanding notice or attention.

        pressão
        Catalan
        insistència
        Spanish
        insistencia

        The quality of being insistent.

              insistència
              Usage of imperativeness in English
              1
              But the young man arrested the motion with a gesture of mock imperativeness.
              Children of the Whirlwind
              2
              There is a terrible intensity and immediate imperativeness about this call.
              Human Traits and their Social Significance
              3
              The man's voice leaped to a higher pitch and was sharp with imperativeness.
              Moon-Face, and Other Stories
              4
              She felt to the full all the imperativeness of the motives which urged Will's conduct.
              Middlemarch
              5
              Law comes saying 'Do this,' and our consciences respond to the imperativeness of the obligation.
              Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chapters I to XIV
              6
              Garstin's eyes had said to her with sharp imperativeness:
              December Love
              7
              Olga spoke with a fierce imperativeness as she saw Diana sway uncertainly and her face whiten.
              The Splendid Folly
              8
              The very homeliness and obviousness of the duty causes us often to lose sight of its imperativeness and necessity.
              Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinth...
              9
              Both had been troubled and roused, and they were drawing together with the sharpness and imperativeness of uniting elements.
              The Game
              10
              If on that subject he had only exercised the imperativeness customary with him on others, all might have been revealed.
              A Pair of Blue Eyes
              11
              And with chin thrown up, and his half-blurred eyes blinking under their white lashes, 'Lias waited with a bland imperativeness for the answer.
              The History of David Grieve
              12
              'Society, amusement, flirtation, are one thing,' she replied with judicial imperativeness, 'marriage is another.
              Robert Elsmere
              13
              "What's got into you, anyway?" she demanded, with a lame attempt at imperativeness.
              When God Laughs, and Other Stories
              14
              'And your reasons?' he said, with quick imperativeness.
              Robert Elsmere
              15
              "This imperativeness would enforce the assent even of an inorganic mass were it capable of following associations of identities."
              The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
              16
              But the young man arrested the motion with a gesture of mock imperativeness.
              Children of the Whirlwind
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