importunity

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Her looks and ability soon bring success and a suitor, a white, amiable young financier whose importunity will not hear honest Mimi's tragic secret.

From Time Magazine Archive

Is the almost whimsical Morrow importunity an ideal substitute for angry notes and troops along the border?

From Time Magazine Archive

Here the gentlemen interposed with earnest petitions to be further enlightened on these two last-named points; but they got only blushes, ejaculations, tremors, and titters, in return for their importunity.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Starveling ministers become broken in spirit, fawning, and crouching, and they generally have an unconscious expression of appeal for help, of importunity and expectancy, stamped upon their faces.

From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Westbrook, Richard B.

My father misses you as much as I do: I will not repeat all he says, lest you should think he repents of his complying with Sir William's importunity.

From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Cavendish, Georgiana