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Importunity

//ˌɪmpɔɹˈtuːnɪti// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A constant and insistent demanding.

    "Then way what loſſe your honor may ſuſtaine / If with too credent eare you liſt his ſongs / Or looſe your hart, or your chaſt treaſure open / To his vnmaſtred importunity."

  2. 2
    Quality of a person who is given to making importunate demands, being greedily or thoughtlessly demanding. wordnet
  3. 3
    An inappropriate or unsuitable time; unseasonableness. obsolete
  4. 4
    insistent solicitation and entreaty wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English importunyte, importunytee, inportunyte, ymportunite, from Middle French importunité and its etymon Latin importūnitās (“incivility”). By surface analysis, importune + -ity.

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