importunity
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French importunité, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin importunitas.
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ɪmpɔːˈtjuːnɪti/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˌɪmpɔɹˈtuːnɪti/
Noun
importunity (plural importunities)
- A constant and insistent demanding.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
- 1611 : The Bible (KJV), Luke 11:8
- I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
- 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield
- Still, however, being surrounded with importunity, and no longer able to satisfy every request that was made him, instead of money he gave promises.
- (obsolete) An inappropriate or unsuitable time; unseasonableness.
Translations
obsolete: unseasonableness
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constant and instant demanding
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