insisture

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Etymology[edit]

insist +‎ -ure

Noun[edit]

insisture (countable and uncountable, plural insistures)

  1. (obsolete) A dwelling or standing on something; fixedness; persistence.
    • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
      The heaven themselves, the planets and this centre
      Observe degree, priority, and place,
      Insisture, course, proportion, season, form,
      Office, and custom, in all line of order […]

References[edit]

  • “insisture”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “insisture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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