insist

Signification (Anglais)

  1. To hold up a claim emphatically.
  2. (sometimes) To demand continually that something happen or be done; to reiterate a demand despite requests to abandon it.
  3. (obsolete) To stand (on); to rest (upon); to lean (upon).

Fréquence

B2
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/ɪnˈsɪst/
Étymologie (Anglais)

Partly from Middle French insister, from Latin īnsistere; and partly from a back-formation from insistence.

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