importunity

Noun

Meaning

The quality of being importunate; pressing or pertinacious solicitation; urgent request; incessant or frequent application; troublesome pertinacity.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

urging urgency interest need pressure call supplication application charge claim importance demand desire appeal emphasis
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Antonyms

repulsion offer demand answer retreat grant
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Hypernyms

solicitation

Related terms

importune

Derivatives

importunities

Examples

The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation. William Hazlitt

Few things will occasion a statesman so much embarrassment as a prevailing opinion that he will yield that to importunity which he ought to proffer to less forward parties upon juster grounds, and that whether he grants or refuses no harm can be done by asking. Henry Taylor

his importunity left me no alternative but to agree Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

importunely importuner importuning importuous imposability imposable