different between absist vs insist

English

Etymology

Latin absistere, present active infinitive of absist? (“desist”); from ab (“from, away from”) + sist? (“stand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?s?st/, /æb?s?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Verb

absist (third-person singular simple present absists, present participle absisting, simple past and past participle absisted)

1. (obsolete) To stand apart from; to leave off; to desist.
   • 1603-16, Walter Raleigh, The History of the World.

     They promise to absist from their purpose of making a war.

Anagrams

• Staibs, absits

English

Etymology

Partly from Middle French insister, from Latin ?nsistere; and partly from a back-formation from insistence.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?s?st/
• Rhymes: -?st
• Hyphenation: in?sist

Verb

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

1. (with on or upon or (that + ordinary verb form)) To hold up a claim emphatically.

   (I am defending her; see a similar example in the context below for comparison.)
2. (sometimes with on or upon or (that + subjunctive)) To demand continually that something happen or be done.

3. (obsolete, chiefly geometry) To stand (on); to rest (upon); to lean (upon).

Translations

Anagrams

• INSTIs, sit-ins, sits in