insist

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge

   I must insist!

2. 2
   verb

   To hold up a claim emphatically.

   The defendant insisted on his innocence.

3. 3
   verb

   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.

4. 4
   verb

   To stand (on); to rest (upon); to lean (upon).

   Angles likewise which insist on the Diameter, are all Right Angles.

5. 5
   verb

   assert to be true

6. 6
   verb

   beg persistently and urgently

Etymology

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).