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insistance

insistance is the misspelling of insistence.

Meaning of insistence

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.

Questions about insistance

What is insistance the misspelling of?
Insistance is the misspelling of insistence.

Words near insistance in the dictionary

  1. insipidness
  2. insipience
  3. insipient
  4. insipiently
  5. insist
  6. insistance
  7. insistances
  8. insistant
  9. insisted
  10. insistedst
  11. insistence

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