insistest

Verb

insist (third-person singular simple present insists, present participle insisting, simple past and past participle insisted)

1. (with on or upon) To hold up a claim emphatically.
   • The defendant insisted on his innocence.
2. (sometimes, with on or upon) To demand continually that something happen or be done; to reiterate a demand despite requests to abandon it.
   • The Prime Minister insisted on his Chancellor's resignation.
3. (obsolete) To stand (on); to rest (upon); to lean (upon).
   • Angles likewise which insist on the Diameter, are all Right Angles.1709, Venturus Mandey, Synopsis Mathematica Universalis