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Noun: insisting  `in'sis-ting
  1. Continual and persistent demands
    - insistence
Verb: insist  in'sist
  1. Be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge
    "I must insist!"
    - take a firm stand
     
  2. Beg persistently and urgently
    - importune
     
  3. Assert to be true
    "The letter insists a free society"
    - assert

See also: insistence

Type of: beg, demand, implore, posit, postulate, pray

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