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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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... ascribed by our father Chaucer to the pattern of chivalry whom he describes upon his pilgrimage to Canterbury. But with all his gentleness, De Valence showed a great degree of acuteness and accuracy in his queries; and well pleased was Bertram that the young knight did not insist upon seeing his supposed son, although even in that case his ready wit had resolved, like a seaman in a tempest, to sacrifice one part to preserve the rest. He was not, however, driven to this extremity, being treated by Sir Aymer with that degree of courtesy which in ...
— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott
 
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... abroad. In either case, the old stock must, if left to its own resources, speedily perish. Queens, in their contests with each other, are sometimes so much crippled as to unfit them for flight, and sometimes they are disabled by the rude treatment of the bees, who insist on driving them away from the royal cells. The great majority, however, of queens which are lost, perish when they leave the hive in search of the drones. Their extra size and slower flight make them a most tempting prey to the birds, ever on the watch in ...
— Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee - A Bee Keeper's Manual • L. L. Langstroth
 
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... told her. "I insist that you make Kate understand. I have been patient and reasonable for a year. You have promised me that you will bring everything around all right. Why don't you ...
— The Landloper - The Romance Of A Man On Foot • Holman Day
 
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... something. Let us not always be unbelieving children. Let us keep in mind that the Lord, not forbidding those who insist on seeing before they will believe, blesses those who have not seen and yet have believed—those who trust in him more than that—who believe without the sight of the eyes, without the hearing of the ears. They are ...
— Unspoken Sermons - Series I., II., and II. • George MacDonald
 
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... that they were affianced by the strongest vows. Angelo replied by asking the Duke to insist on the production of ...
— Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare • E. Nesbit
 
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