insist
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insist
- /ɪnˈsɪst/
Sounds like encyst · Rhymes with -ɪst
Where it comes from
Partly from Middle French insister, from Latin īnsistere; and partly from a back-formation from insistence.
Compare typologically from the same PIE root Bulgarian настоявам (nastojavam), Russian наста́ивать (nastáivatʹ).
verb insists · insisting · insisted
- To hold up a claim emphatically. The defendant insisted on his innocence.
- To demand continually that something happen or be done; to reiterate a demand despite requests to abandon it. The Prime Minister insisted on his Chancellor's resignation.
- To stand (on); to rest (upon); to lean (upon). Angles likewise which insist on the Diameter, are all Right Angles.
