Insist: alternatives and connections

To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

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To affirm or aver positively, or with solemnity.

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To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset.

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To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintai…

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A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.

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To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.

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To engage in continuous thought; to think.

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To call upon, or for, in supplication; to beseech; to prey to, or for, earnestly; to petition with urency; to entreat; to beg; -- followed directly b…

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To dispose or set firmly or fixedly; to place or dispose in relation to other objects.

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Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as self-evident; a truth to w…

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See Pry.

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To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

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The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced.

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The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced.

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The quality of insisting, or being urgent or pressing; the act of dwelling upon as of special importance; persistence; urgency.

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The quality of insisting, or being urgent or pressing; the act of dwelling upon as of special importance; persistence; urgency.

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To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

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To request or solicit, with urgency; to press with frequent, unreasonable, or troublesome application or pertinacity; hence, to tease; to irritate; t…

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