overinsist

English

Etymology

over- +‎ insist

Verb

overinsist (third-person singular simple present overinsists, present participle overinsisting, simple past and past participle overinsisted)

  1. To insist too strongly.
    • 2010, Ernest Becker, Birth and Death of Meaning:
      It would be impossible to overinsist on the importance of this talent for social life.
    • 2012, Robert Beum, Karl Shapiro, The Prosody Handbook: A Guide to Poetic Form, page 75:
      So powerful is our fear of uncertainty and chaos that we sometimes overinsist upon order, to the point of ennui in sensibility, and of fallacy in thought and perception.

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