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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope