Citations:pressing


 * 1) needing urgent attention
 * 2) *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.”
 * 1) *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.
 * 1) insistent
 * 2) *1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. 2,
 * You are very pressing, Basil, but I am afraid I must go.
 * 1) *1908, Joseph Conrad, "The Duel,"
 * He was pressing and persuasive.