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

"Yes, come in," said a sharp voice, very much with the expression of one wearied out by importunity.

From Barrington Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James

Whereas Brereton, the strong, quiet man, resisting importunity, shunning haste, keeping his head where others wavered, had carried the city through its trouble, with scarce the loss of a single life.

From Chippinge Borough by Weyman, Stanley J.