单词 | importunacy |
释义 | importunacyn. = importunity n. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > [noun] > earnest request or entreaty > importunity or urgency instancec1340 importunityc1425 instancy1515 importunateness?1526 importunacy1548 importancea1555 importancy1576 opportunitya1586 urgencec1592 urgency1611 clamorousnessa1617 pressingness1661 precariousness1666 supplicancy1728 beseechingness1863 imploringness1863 pleadingness1866 demandingness1930 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Mark vi. f. xlvii He gate him not out of the waye, nor commaunded them to departe for their importunacie [L. nec abegit importunos]. 1605 B. Jonson Sejanus sig. G4 The confluence Of suitors, then their importunacies . View more context for this quotation a1639 D. Digges Compl. Ambassador (1655) 228 Overcome with the importunacy of their reasons, we did yield to take some further consideration. 1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 187 He, who made least to do, has often succeeded, when a rash, busie, importunacy has made an enemy of a friend. 1791 Mental Avidity ii. 13 She was wooed by thirty Suitors; yet resolving to preserve her Chastity immaculate, they renewed their Suits with increased Importunacy. 1836 E. W. Lane Acct. Manners & Customs Mod. Egyptians I. x. 315 A few..subsist on alms; which they often demand with great importunacy. 1893 J. Pulsford Loyalty to Christ II. 243 She is lauded by Jesus: her importunacy is triumphant. 1918 Fortn. Rev. 2 Dec. 897 There is..no such importunacy as that of a faithful party man who, disappointed of an Under-Secretaryship, demands a Baronetcy in compensation. 1999 Times 11 Sept. (Weekend section) 2/1 Soho, Covent Garden and Charing Cross are plagued by these guys [sc. taxi drivers] whose importunacy is a threatening irritant. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1548 |
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