importunity
Americannoun
plural
importunities-
the state or quality of being importunate; persistence in solicitation.
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importunities, importunate solicitations or demands.
Etymology
Origin of importunity
1425–75; late Middle English importunite < Latin importūnitās. See importune, -ity
Example Sentences
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Is the almost whimsical Morrow importunity an ideal substitute for angry notes and troops along the border?
From Time Magazine Archive
Her looks and ability soon bring success and a suitor, a white, amiable young financier whose importunity will not hear honest Mimi's tragic secret.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here the gentlemen interposed with earnest petitions to be further enlightened on these two last-named points; but they got only blushes, ejaculations, tremors, and titters, in return for their importunity.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Disturbed with her importunity, and careless of providing against difficulties from which I expected soon to escape, I commanded her to desist.
From Discipline by Brunton, Mary
To thanksgiving and submission, there may be vouchsafed a continual to favor; but to importunity, as urged upon you in your scripture, my poor brother, nothing.
From The Portland Sketch Book by Various
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