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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
blandishment, buttonholing, cajolement, cajolery, coaxing, demandingness, dunning, exigency, importunacy, importunateness, insistence, nagging, persistence, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, pestering, plaguing, plying, pressing, pressingness, pressure, teasing, urgency, urging, wheedling
Dictionary Results for importunity:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
importunity
    n 1: insistent solicitation and entreaty; "his importunity left
         me no alternative but to agree" [syn: importunity,
         urgency, urging]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Importunity \Im`por*tu"ni*ty\, n.; pl. Importunities. [L.
   importunitas unsuitableness, rudeness: cf. F.
   importunit['e].]
   The quality of being importunate; pressing or pertinacious
   solicitation; urgent request; incessant or frequent
   application; troublesome pertinacity.
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         O'ercome with importunity and tears.     --Milton.
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3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
IMPORTUNITY. Urgent solicitation, with troublesome frequency and 
pertinacity. 
     2. Wills and devises are sometimes set aside in consequence of the 
importunity of those who have procured them. Whenever the importunity is 
such as to deprive the devisor of the freedom, of his will, the devise 
becomes fraudulent and void. Dane's Ab. ch. 127, a. 14, s. 5, 6, 7; 2 
Phillim. R. 551, 2.
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