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Beg vs Insist - What's the difference?

beg | insist |

As a noun beg

is .

As a verb insist is

to hold up a claim emphatically.

beg

English

(wikipedia beg)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), assimilation from (etyl) *.

Verb

(begg)
  • to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
    • He begged on the street corner from passers-by.
  • to plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat
    • I beg your pardon. I didn't mean to cause offence.
    He begged her to go to the prom with him .
  • * Shakespeare
    • I do beg your good will in this case.
  • * Bible, Matthew xxvii. 58
    • [Joseph] begged the body of Jesus.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 5
    • But that same day came Sam Tewkesbury to the Why Not? about nightfall, and begged a glass of rum, being, as he said, 'all of a shake'
  • to assume, in the phrase (beg the question)
  • (proscribed) to raise a question, in the phrase (beg the question)
  • (legal, obsolete) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
  • * Harrington
    • Else some will beg thee, in the court of wards.
    Usage notes
    * This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See
    Antonyms
    * (raise a question)
    Derived terms
    * beg the question * go begging * beg to differ

    See also

    *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire, a bey

    • Etymology 3

    insist

    English

    Alternative forms

    * ensist

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To hold up a claim emphatically.
    • (I am defending her; see a similar example in the context below for comparison.)
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud,
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist . Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
  • To demand continually that something happen or be done.
  • To stand (on); to rest (upon); to lean (upon).
  • * 1709 , Venturus Mandey, Synopsis Mathematica Universalis
    • Angles likewise which insist on the Diameter, are all Right Angles.

    Anagrams

    * English reporting verbs