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Insist   /ɪnsˈɪst/   Listen
Insist

verb
(past & past part. insisted; pres. part. insisting)
1.
Be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge.  Synonym: take a firm stand.
2.
Beg persistently and urgently.  Synonym: importune.
3.
Assert to be true.  Synonym: assert.



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"Insist" Quotes from Famous Books



... said; yet he knew and weighed her hatred of Sakr-el-Bahr, knew how it must urge her to put the worst construction upon any act of his, knew her jealousy for Marzak, and so he mistrusted her arguments and mistrusted himself. Also there was his own love of Sakr-el-Bahr that would insist upon a place in the balance of his judgment. His ...
— The Sea-Hawk • Raphael Sabatini

... savagely. "We've got to live, I s'pose. You'll earn the money. That sort of thing is done in every business. You make me sick." He lit his pipe and blew great clouds of smoke across the table. "I tell you what it is, we can't afford to keep your brother doing nothing all the time. If you insist on keeping him you must find the money—somewhere. It's no use being proud. We're hard up, and if people owe you money, well—dun 'em for it. I don't know how it is, but this darned business of yours seems to have gone ...
— The One-Way Trail - A story of the cattle country • Ridgwell Cullum

... students to report meetings. Report conferences, decisions, etc. Insist that the story begin with the gist of the report in each ...
— Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence - A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of - Newspaper Writing • Grant Milnor Hyde

... she said; "I shouldna hae lauchen. Lauchin', I'm sure,'s far eneuch frae my hert! I kenna hoo I cam to du 't. But ye're sic a bairn, Cosmo! Ye dinna ken what ye wad hae! An' bein' a kin' o' a mither to ye a' yer life, I maun lat ye see what ye're aboot—I wadna insist owersair upo' the years atween 's, though that's no a sma' maitter, but surely ye haena to be tellt at this time o' day,'at for fowk to merry 'at dinna loe ane anither, is little gien it be onything ...
— Warlock o' Glenwarlock • George MacDonald

... appeals to vision have been multiplied and at the same time aided by appeals to the other senses. Movement, especially in the form of dancing, is the most important of the secondary appeals to vision. This is so well recognized that it is scarcely necessary to insist upon it here; it may suffice to refer to a single typical example. The most decent of Polynesian dances, according to William Ellis, was the hura, which was danced by the daughters of chiefs in the presence of young ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis


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