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importunateness|ɪmˈpɔːtjuːnətnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being importunate; importunity.
c1530L. Cox Rhet. (1899) 67 Our lybertie is ouercome..by the importunatnes of our wyues. 1549Latimer 3rd Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 93 He wyl beare your importunatenes, he wyll not be angrye at your cryinge and calling. 1635R. Carew in Lismore Papers Ser. ii. (1888) III. 217, I am herevnto induced by the importunateness of my Masters. 1812De Quincey in H. A. Page Life (1877) I. viii. 169 Her sweet importunateness of action and voice. |