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n. - Insistent solicitation and entreaty.

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Usage examples (34)
  • His importunity left me no alternative but to agree
  • The word importunity denotes perseverance in an object, without any regard to time, place, or circumstances -- an improper perseverance.
  • Our importunity is a part of God's answer, both of His answer to us and ours to Him...
  • She was certain now that what she could only call his importunity had proved somehow disastrous to Rodney Lanyon.
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