insist
verb (used without object)
to be emphatic, firm, or resolute on some matter of desire, demand, intention, etc..
insister
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a word derived from
insist.
Example Sentences
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But now, a guileless reader of handwriting on walls, a firm insister on plausibility, he finds that "the stage is set for even more tragic happenings."
From Time Magazine Archive
"You're a regular insister, ain't you?" he said as he drew a carbon copy of the agreement from his pocket.
From Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford by George Randolph Chester
The most persistent setter of questions, feeler of objections, insister on satisfactions, is the religious life.
From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by William James
