an importuning or being importunate; persistence in requesting or demanding
Word origin
Fr importunité < L importunitas
Examples of 'importunity' in a sentence
importunity
The king got rid of their importunity by referring them to me.
Elizabeth Stone, Edited by Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton Wilton The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages (1841). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)