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in⋅sist

  [in-sist]
Use insisted in a Sentence
–verb (used without object)
1. to be emphatic, firm, or resolute on some matter of desire, demand, intention, etc.: He insists on checking every shipment.
2. to lay emphasis in assertion: to insist on the justice of a claim.
3. to dwell with earnestness or emphasis (usually fol. by on or upon): to insist on a point in a discussion.
–verb (used with object)
4. to assert or maintain firmly: He insists that he saw the ghosts.
5. to demand or persist in demanding: I insist that you see this thing through.
Origin:
1580–90; < L insistere to stand still on, persist in, equiv. to in- in- 2 + sistere to stand, make stand, reduplicated deriv. from base of stāre to stand

Related forms:
in⋅sist⋅er, noun
in⋅sist⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
5. urge, require.
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in·sist   (ĭn-sĭst')   
v.   in·sist·ed, in·sist·ing, in·sists

v.   intr.
To be firm in a demand or course; refuse to yield: insisted on giving me a second helping.
v.   tr.
To assert or demand (something) vehemently and persistently: We insist that you accept these gifts.

[Latin īnsistere, to persist : in-, on; see in-2 + sistere, to stand; see stā- in Indo-European roots.]
in·sis'tence, in·sis'ten·cy n., in·sist'er n., in·sist'ing·ly adv.
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