0 present participle of insist --
1 to say firmly or demand forcefully, especially when others disagree with or oppose what you say: --
Please go first - I insist!
[ + (that) ] Greg still insists (that) he did nothing wrong.
He must reassert his authority by silencing her threatening speech and insisting on his verbal command of the conversation.
Each group married and socialized only within itself, insisting on exclusivity and social distance from the other groups around it.
This, again, is insisting on the priority of fidelity over neutrality.
We must do so for the sake of democracy and for the sake of science, insisting upon the partnership between democratic experimentalism and scientific relentlessness.
Sociologists have taken a similarly strong stance in insisting that their field offers a unique and indispensable contribution.
This addition increases conceptual validity by insisting on harm, consistent with the harmful dysfunction analysis.
By the twelfth century leaders of monasticism were insisting on the monk's individual choice.
However, he refused to start treatment for several months, insisting that he wanted his wife to become pregnant before he began the therapy.
