What is the meaning of insist?

verb

  • Be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge.
    • usage: "I must insist"
  • Beg persistently and urgently.
    • usage: "I importune you to help them"
  • Assert to be true.
    • usage: "The letter asserts a free society"
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