insists

verb

(sometimes with (that + subjunctive) or intransitive, with on or upon) To demand continually that something happen or be done; to reiterate a demand despite requests to abandon it.

(with (that + indicative) or intransitive, with on or upon) To hold up a claim emphatically.

(obsolete, chiefly geometry) To stand (on); to rest (upon); to lean (upon).

Roots

sistosist- · Latin · stand, set

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