Translation for "porfiar" to english

Porfiar

verb

• persist
• insist

Translation examples

insist verb

Alteza, en el pasado, os inculqué que un rey debe soñar y porfiar por hacer realidad sus anhelos.
Your Highness, in the past, I taught you that a King must dream and, stiffly, insist on realizing his desires.

Sonrió al pensar en la sagacidad demostrada por el superintendente Webberly al emparejarles, al porfiar en que no se rompiera su asociación ni en momentos que, para Lynley, constituían una situación imposible, que sólo podía empeorar.
He smiled at the thought that Superintendent Webberly had been absolutely right to put them together, to insist they remain in partnership even at moments when Lynley believed it was an impossible situation that could only grow worse.