insistance
insistance is the misspelling of insistence.
Meaning of insistence
Noun
insistence (countable and uncountable, plural insistences)
- 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
- An urgent demand.
- The forcing of an attack through the parry, using strength.
Questions about insistance
- What is insistance the misspelling of?
- Insistance is the misspelling of insistence.
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