Citations:pressing

English citations of pressing

1. needing urgent attention
   • 1841, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, ch. 75,

     “I come on business.—Private,” he added, with a glance at the man who stood looking on, “and very pressing business.”

   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, ch. 3, Manchester Insurrection,

     And now the world will have to pause a little, and take up that other side of the problem, and in right earnest strive for some solution of that. For it has become pressing.

2. insistent
   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. 2,

     You are very pressing, Basil, but I am afraid I must go.

   • 1908, Joseph Conrad, "The Duel,"

     He was pressing and persuasive.