Difference between Insist and Importune

INSIST vs IMPORTUNE: NOUN

Troublesome; vexatious; persistent; urgent; hence, vexatious on account of untimely urgency or pertinacious solicitation.
Inopportune; unseasonable.
Importunate.
Grievous, severe, exacting.

To stand on; to rest upon; to lean upon. Used especially as a technical term in geometry.
To demand continually that something happen or be done.
To hold up a claim emphatically.
Be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge
Assert to be true
Beg persistently and urgently
Be insistent and refuse to budge

Beg persistently and urgently
To bother, trouble, irritate.
To harass with persistent requests.
To approach to offer one's services as a prostitute, or otherwise make improper proposals.

To assert or demand (something) firmly or persistently.
To stand or rest; to find support; -- with in, on, or upon.
To be resolute or firm in a demand or course.
To take a stand and refuse to give way; to hold to something firmly or determinedly; to be persistent, urgent, or pressing; to persist in demanding; -- followed by on, upon, or that

To request or solicit, with urgency; to press with frequent, unreasonable, or troublesome application or pertinacity; hence, to tease; to irritate; to worry.
To import; to signify.

Postulate positively and assertively
To be urgent in action; proceed persistently; persevere.
To assert or argue emphatically; express a desire or a belief with urgency or persistence.
To rest, dwell, or dilate earnestly or repeatedly; urge: with on or upon: as, I must insist upon your coming.
To stand or rest; find support: with on or upon.

Unseasonable; inopportune; untimely.
To press or harass with solicitation; ply or beset with unremitting petitions or demands; crave or require persistently.
To crave or require persistently; beg for urgently.
To annoy; irritate; molest.
[A false use, by confusion with import.] To import; signify; mean.
To make requests or demands urgently and persistently.
Synonyms Request, Beg, Tease (see ask); appeal to, plead with, beset, urge, plague, worry, press, dun.

Reiterate, Oblige, Ask, Adhere, Expect, Want, Urge, Emphasize, Claim, Insistence, Say, Argue, Take a firm stand, Importune, Assert

Condescend, Bidden, Sermonise, Unheeding, Backbite, Expostulate, Reprove, Grovel, Implore, Beseech, Supplicate, Urge, Beg, Entreat, Insist

Affirm, Require, Keep, Oblige, Ask, Adhere, Expect, Want, Urge, Emphasize, Claim, Say, Argue, Importune, Assert

Condescend, Bidden, Sermonise, Unheeding, Backbite, Expostulate, Reprove, Grovel, Implore, Beseech, Supplicate, Urge, Beg, Entreat, Insist

Why do you insist on maintaining this story?
House to make amendments cannot insist upon anything.
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Others insist that technology will save the day.
The Rastafarian god may insist you wear dreadlocks.
Insist on reviewing the nonconformities as they are written, and insist the nonconformities be written the day they are found, on site.
In such cases, therefore, the Court may not insist an administrative authority to act judicially but may still insist it to act fairly.
In all cases, lenders insist that the borrower secure hazard insurance prior to closing, and insist that they are listed on the policy.
They still insist nothing is wrong until I have to get mad at them and insist that they do more.
Should the chancellor insist on staying, I must insist on appointing guardsmen for your safety.

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Both opportune and importune find their root in the Latin portus, or harbor, in reference to Portunus, the Roman god of ports.
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Go, go, go, seek some other where; importune me no more.
She seemed to be tired of my questions: and, indeed, what claim had I to importune her?
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SYN: Implore, obsecrate, beg, beseech, importune, crave, solicit, supplicate, pray, ask, urge, petition.
Both philosophies, together, importune a reshaping of destiny.