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6 letters · 6 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge
verb beg persistently and urgently
verb assert to be true
originPartly from Middle French insister, from Latin īnsistere; and partly from a back-formation from insistence. Compare typologically from the same PIE root Bulgarian настоявам (nastojavam), Russian наста́ивать (nastáivatʹ).
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