Associations to the word «Importunity»

Wiktionary

IMPORTUNITY, noun. (obsolete) Unseasonableness; an unsuitable or inappropriate time.
IMPORTUNITY, noun. A constant and insistent demanding.

Dictionary definition

IMPORTUNITY, noun. Insistent solicitation and entreaty; "his importunity left me no alternative but to agree".

Wise words

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates