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† imˈportancy Obs.
[f. med.L. importāntia: see prec. and -ancy.]
1. The quality of being important; = prec. 1.
1540Act 32 Hen. VIII, c. 48 If the importancy or urgency of the cause..so requier. 1604Shakes. Oth. i. iii. 20 When we consider Th' importancie of Cyprus to the Turke. 1693Beverley True St. Gosp. Truth 13 According to the great Importancy of the word Knowing in Scripture.
b. An important matter; = prec. 2.
1623Cockeram, Importancie, Importance, a matter of much value. 1625Jackson Creed v. vi. §3 The great dissention..in such importancies enforceth such as thinke they have attained to some certainty in this point to reele and stagger. 1803Southey in Life (1850) II. x. 241 Materials for a volume that should contain more real importancies than all travellers have yet brought home.
2. Urgency, importunity; = prec. 3.
1598–9E. Forde Parismus ii. (1661) 141 In the end his suit grew to that importancy, that he would not be denied. 1624Heywood Gunaik. 204 Their importancie so far prevailed..that the first decree was quite abrogated. 1673O. Walker Educ. (1677) 38 Pressing all things great and small with the same vigour and importancy. |