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Definition of Importunities
1. importunity [n] - See also: importunity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Importunities
Literary usage of Importunities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Early Italian Poets: From Cuillo D'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200-1300 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1904)
"SENTENZE Of importunities and Troublesome Persons THERE is a vice prevails
Concerning which I'll set you on your guard ; And other four, which hard It were ..."
2. History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century by Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1879)
"... helps him to translate the New Testament—importunities of the Bishop of Lincoln—
Persecution in ..."
3. History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American Continent by George Bancroft (1875)
"... ent moment it' could do them no good, and to us CHAP. might be very detrimental."
—-v—• The unseasonable importunities of Lee in the year ..."
4. Dante and His Circle: With the Italian Poets Preceding Him (1100-1200-1300 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Dante Alighieri (1905)
"Of importunities and Troublesome Persons. THERE is a vice prevails And other
four, which hard It were (as may be thought) that I should blame. ..."
5. History of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1899)
"Though the commons did not relax in their importunities for the redress of general
grievances, they did not venture to intermeddle as before with the ..."
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