importunity

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Constant and insistent demanding or proposing, especially if regarded as annoying or upsetting; also, the character of such behaviour; (countable) an instance of this.

   “Of a ſuretie, it is a ioyfull thynge to reioyce in the chyldhode of chyldren, but it is a ryght cruel thing to ſuffre the importunities of their mothers.”

2. isim The fact of being at an inappropriate or unsuitable time; unseasonableness.

   “Speake not, where there is no audyence: and poure not forth wyſzdome out of tyme, at an importunyte.”

3. isim Persistence in behaviour; determination, perseverance, stubbornness.

   “[S]uch vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs, with tickling importunity—best to sweep them away at a dash: […]”

4. isim The quality of being annoying or troublesome; difficulty, trouble; (countable) an instance of this.

   “[V]ery often the Importunity and Violence of the Cough vvas to be appeaſed by Elixir Aſthmaticum, Diacodium, &c.”