His importunity left me no alternative but to agree. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The word importunity denotes perseverance in an object, without any regard to time, place, or circumstances -- an improper perseverance. From Wordnik.com. [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference
Our importunity is a part of God's answer, both of His answer to us and ours to Him. From Wordnik.com. [E-Mails to God and Glenn Beck] Reference
She was certain now that what she could only call his importunity had proved somehow disastrous to Rodney Lanyon. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Crystal] Reference
"importunity," signifies freedom from the bashfulness which cannot ask a second time. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
But the importunity of the call was not to be resisted. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
To get rid of the good wife's importunity, and the trouble of. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
She professed to like her own couch best; but the importunity of. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
The loquacity and importunity of the Bhats are shown in the saying. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
Wearied by his importunity, Lady Newburgh at last forbade him the house. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
Under the greatest importunity of business, besides his office and mass, with. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Yet he was of all the kings most clever and ingenious at getting rid of such importunity. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Fawcett, they never did exhibit the pathetic importunity and Demosthenic fervor of Baxter. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
Hiram was not influenced by his companion's importunity, but he decided to go, nevertheless. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Persistent importunity will not, therefore, be the best support of an application for office. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
Their importunity greatly distressed the Canton statesman, who desired to remain in the United. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
It was soon understood we wanted lodgings, and the importunity of the females was most embarrassing. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
Do not take part in conversation which is calculated to add to their importunity or to their strength. From Wordnik.com. [Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew] Reference
How she did it is not explained; but at last her importunity prevailed, and the youth went away with her. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
I observed many persons stop and make purchases of her on whom all importunity would have been thrown away. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
The importunity of the friars could be no longer resisted; this new calamity seemed to strengthen their cause. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Going upstairs to escape from my sister's importunity, I found the door of the hitherto locked room invitingly open. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
I urged him with earnestness; but he steadily resisted, and seemed offended, or, rather, agitated, by my importunity. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
On the whole, however, the children give me great joy, though also not a little annoyance owing to their importunity. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
No envenomed reiteration, no popular delusion, no importunity of friendship, shall ever draw from me another syllable. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition] Reference
Pardon me, my dear Conscience, if, under the excitement of the moment, I complained of your honest and continued importunity. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
The king at length, wearied with their importunity, dissolved the House, upon which a new election followed in the next month. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Yes, Alice Turner knew her elder sister's little way very well indeed, and because of this she yielded to Darby's importunity. From Wordnik.com. [Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls] Reference
When the Lord desired specially to recommend importunity in prayer, he selected a case which teaches importunity and nothing more. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
And the servant said so much that to get rid of her importunity the fairy said: "Well, bring something; if I want it, I will take it.". From Wordnik.com. [Italian Popular Tales] Reference
The Cardinal, annoyed by this importunity, rose, observing that the day was advancing, and that it was time to set out to visit the King. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Do you see yonder godly mother, weeping over her fallen son, and remonstrating with him in tones of a mother's tenderness and importunity?. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
An agile troupe of yelling beggars, guides, and coachmen surrounded them with an importunity wherein was mingled the gracefulness which Italians never lose. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
About the same time a noble pilgrim succeeded, after great importunity and a lavish outlay of money, in obtaining trifling particles of the relics of Abraham. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
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