insist

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To say very firmly that something must happen or be done, and refuse to accept no.

   She insisted on paying for the meal.

2. 2
   verb

   To say firmly that something is true, even when others doubt it.

   He insisted that he had locked the door.

Multiword verbs with insist

• insist on Prepositional verb B1

  to demand something firmly or refuse to accept an alternative

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Simplified etymology

Insist belongs to the same Latin family as consist, ultimately tracing to sistere, “to set, stand still, or stop.” The related late Middle English noun insistence is explained as “standing upon an argument.”

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).

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