Importunity

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Importunity \Im`por*tu"ni*ty\, n.; pl. {Importunities}. [L.
     importunitas unsuitableness, rudeness: cf. F.
     importunit['e].]
     The quality of being importunate; pressing or pertinacious
     solicitation; urgent request; incessant or frequent
     application; troublesome pertinacity.


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           O'ercome with importunity and tears.     --Milton.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  importunity
       n : insistent solicitation and entreaty; "his importunity left
           me no alternative but to agree" [syn: {urgency}, {urging}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  25 Moby Thesaurus words for "importunity":
     blandishment, buttonholing, cajolement, cajolery, coaxing,
     demandingness, dunning, exigency, importunacy, importunateness,
     insistence, nagging, persistence, pertinaciousness, pertinacity,
     pestering, plaguing, plying, pressing, pressingness, pressure,
     teasing, urgency, urging, wheedling
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  IMPORTUNITY. Urgent solicitation, with troublesome frequency and 
  pertinacity. 
       2. Wills and devises are sometimes set aside in consequence of the 
  importunity of those who have procured them. Whenever the importunity is 
  such as to deprive the devisor of the freedom, of his will, the devise 
  becomes fraudulent and void. Dane's Ab. ch. 127, a. 14, s. 5, 6, 7; 2 
  Phillim. R. 551, 2.