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
By much importunity," says an annalist, Mr. Ranford of Chowan, "in 1712 we prevailed upon Mr. Martin to let him baptize three of his Negroes, two women and a boy.
From The History of the Negro Church by Carter Godwin Woodson
At last they were so annoyed by the importunity of the motley crowd, that we could have no more intercourse with them.
From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Alexander Philipp Maximilian
She does this while offering him no emotional response to his importunities whatsoever.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
In her footsteps, women had to take the next move as resisters of unwarranted prejudice: "Sue for your rights and privileges. Know the reason that you cannot attain them. Weary them with your importunities."
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2020
You can turn off your devices but you cannot turn off the knowledge that they are receiving the world’s importunities.
From Time ● Feb. 26, 2015
He endures dank tunnels and windswept platforms in winter, choking dust and stifling heat in summer, and the muscular importunities of station guards in all seasons.
From Time Magazine Archive
His master would have none of it; but scolded him for his importunities.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing importunity
"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
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