Definitions for insistences

insistences in·sist·ence

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

Insistences is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 256 anagrams from letters in insistences (ceeiinnssst).

Definitions for insistences

noun

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

Origin of insistences

First recorded in 1605-15; insist + -ence

Examples for insistences

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

In that insistence lay her ultimate compensation for untold misery.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for insistences
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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