Importunity is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for IMPORTUNITY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being importunate
• The quality of being importunate; pressing or pertinacious solicitation; urgent request; incessant or frequent application; troublesome pertinacity.
• insistent solicitation and entreaty
• persistence, especially to the point of annoyance.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the quality or state of being importunate

Words related to IMPORTUNITY

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How to use IMPORTUNITY in a sentence

• In August 1170 came Earl Richard himself, who had crossed to France in search of Henry, and with persistent importunity implored for leave to join the Irish war.
• But where evidence was wanting, he was never to be moved to a change by any amount of importunity or temptation.
• God only knows with what earnestness and importunity I prostrated myself before him to beg her life, which I would have been willing almost to have purchased with my own.
• He refused, and, on my importunity, indignantly upbraided me with the favours he had already conferred.
• The girl began to be frightened by his importunity, and looked anxiously toward the door.
• When I had written about seven-tenths of the first volume, I was prevailed upon by the extreme importunity of an old and intimate friend to allow him the perusal of my manuscript.
• Michael had proposed the day, but she asked for time, and he refrained from further importunity.
• Palmer, though treating their apprehensions as idle, found the anxiety and importunity of his wife too great to be withstood.
• I have asked but one thing with importunity, and by that I abide.
• He regarded me with a fixed and serious eye, but at length yielding to my importunity, reluctantly granted my request.
• Worn out by their importunity, the two Tribunes withdrew their opposition, and the hated law was abolished by the suffrage of all the tribes.
• Baring, who said, that importunity and clamour, threats of commotion and resistance to the law obtained that which was refused to the patient suffering of the farmer.
• Until now she had resisted all importunity, and no likeness of her existed.
• There neither has been nor is any necessity for supplication and importunity.
• The decided resistance with which she now met the importunity of all the men seemed offensive to them, and awakened another feeling, that of ill-will towards her.
• She seemed to be demanding of me, with mute, gentle importunity, to make real my ideal of life, to be what I knew she believed me to be.
• His ultimate consent was given, we believe, mainly through the importunity of the Rev.
• But by much Importunity I was lately prevailed with to go to one of their Balls.
• They had been annoyed during the greater part of this day by a tribe of ragged beggars, whose importunity was really disgusting.
• There was something suspicious and unaccountable in this importunity.
• Nay, when, as in duty bound, I pressed the question, I found her reason was disordered by my importunity, and therefore I abandoned the attempt.
• The conclusion of this letter has been sacrificed to the importunity of some autograph fiend from whose tribe I have had the greatest difficulty in preserving its fellows.
• He was what one might call an importunate man, for he proposed nineteen times in all, and nineteen three-legged stools stood as silent witnesses of his importunity.
• I was resolved in my mind not to take it from him, and yet I could find no means to resist his importunity.
• From this original meaning the word has enlarged until now it means to tease, to trouble, to harass with importunity or with care or anxiety.
• The pilots seem to have been extremely ignorant, and the admiral to have yielded to their importunity.
• In consideration of their great importunity, twenty-three of us agreed to go along with them well armed, with a fixed resolution to sell our lives dear if necessity required.
• The voyage will at least lessen my expenses, and screen me from the importunity of creditors till I can look about me.
• He gave to Captain Mendia, without ransom, three or four Spaniards whom he held captive, and besought him with much importunity to make him a friend of the Spaniards.
• In response to this importunity, Congress at one time paid a bounty of twenty-five dollars a head for all prisoners taken.
• We are therefore left to conjecture, in this case, upon what foundation universal suffrage is claimed for them with so much importunity.
• He had the prudent firmness to resist the earnest importunity of his officers and men, to be led to the scene of action.
• The importunity of Ohquamehud had wrung from the Genius the consent which he solicited.

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