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unimportunate

  • a word derived from importunate.
    importunate
    adjective
    urgent or persistent in solicitation, sometimes annoyingly so.

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It is true a want of importunity too generally attends our prayers; yet unimportunate, and feeble as they have been, it is to be believed that God has heard, and in a measure answered them.

From An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens In Which the Religious State of the Different Nations of the World, the Success of Former Undertakings, and the Practicability of Further Undertakings, Are Considered by Carey, William

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