Definitions for insistence

insistence in·sist·ence

Spelling: [in-sis-tuh ns]
IPA: /ɪnˈsɪs təns/

Insistence is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 246 anagrams from letters in insistence (ceeiinnsst).

Definitions for insistence

noun

  1. the act or fact of insisting.
  2. the quality of being insistent.

Origin of insistence

First recorded in 1605-15; insist + -ence

Examples for insistence

Eventually I gave way to Bunny's insistence and lost my virginity, appropriately enough, in H.G. Wells's spare bedroom.

Sports Illustrated sent Shrake down at his insistence to do a piece on the beautiful and haunting Big Thicket area of East Texas.

I think that my unhappiness had as much to do with my father's insistence on the change, as anything.

In that insistence lay her ultimate compensation for untold misery.

There was a note of insistence that carried a curious dignity of its own.

He was very clear in his insistence that Americans are not dumb.

All his distrust awoke into fresh life at Claude's insistence.

Her younger sister was removed from school as well, at the insistence of her new family.

We're partly to blame, too, what with our insistence on compartmentalizing the people in our lives.

What harm could visit him if he yielded to this corpulent adventurer's insistence?

Word Value for insistence
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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