Behest vs Insistence - What's the difference?
behest | insistence |
A command, bidding; sometimes also, an authoritative request.
* 1977 , , Penguin Classics, p. 278:
* Sir Walter Scott
* 2007 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day :
* 2009 , “What a waste”, The Economist , 15 Oct 2009:
* 2011 , Owen Gibson, The Guardian , 24 Mar 2011:
A vow; a promise.
* Paston
the state of being insistent
an urgent demand
(fencing) The forcing of an attack through the parry, using strength
As nouns the difference between behest and insistence
is that behest is a command, bidding; sometimes also, an authoritative request while insistence is the state of being insistent.As a verb behest
is (obsolete) to promise; vow.behest
English
Noun
(en noun)- Paul did not dare pronounce, let matters rest, / His master having given him no behest .
- to do his master's high behest
- And young Mr. Fleetwood Vibe was here at the behest of his father, Wall Street eminence Scarsdale Vibe, who was effectively bankrolling the Expedition.
- the House of Representatives will try to water down even this feeble effort at the behest of the unions whose members enjoy some of the most lavish policies.
- The Manchester United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, is to meet with the BBC director general, Mark Thompson, at the behest of the Premier League in a bid to resolve their long-running feud.
- The time is come that I should send it her, if I keep the behest that I have made.