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单词 importunity
释义
importunity
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n

Importunity is when you beg someone to do something. "Please, please take me to the mall!" is probably something said by many teens with importunity.
The adjective importunate describes a plea that is so persistent or demanding that it becomes annoying. You can use the noun importunity to describe an example of this kind of pleading. You might ask for a bite of your friend's dessert with importunity, moaning about how hungry you are and how deliciously fudgy her chocolate cake looks. The root of importunity is the Latin importunitatem, which means "unsuitableness or incivility," and comes from importunus, "unfit or troublesome."
WORD FAMILY
importunity: importunities+/importunate: importunately/importune: importunate, importuned, importunes, importuning, importunity
USAGE EXAMPLES
You can turn off your devices but you cannot turn off the knowledge that they are receiving the world’s importunities.
Time(Feb 26, 2015)
Without your importunities and officious advances no great lord or knight or man of honour would think of you.
Power, Eileen, Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275...(2012)
A good example, free from any proselytizing attempts, produces in religious souls a much more powerful impression than the importunities of cathechists.
Dinet, Etienne, The Life of Mohammad—The Prophet of...(2012)
n insistent solicitation and entreaty
his importunity left me no alternative but to agree
Syn|Hyper
urgency, urging
solicitation
an entreaty addressed to someone of superior status
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