Lexicographical Neighbors of Importunateness
Literary usage of Importunateness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism by Confucius, James Legge (1885)
"Such frequency is indicative of importunateness; and importunateness is inconsistent
with reverence. Nor should they be at distant intervals. ..."
2. Sermons by Hugh Latimer (1906)
"When the judge saw her so importunate, " Though I fear neither God," saith he, "
nor the world, yet because of her importunateness, I will grant her request ..."
3. Sermons by Hugh Latimer by Hugh Latimer, George Elwes Corrie (1844)
"... her re(luest-" But our judges are worse than this judge was, for they wlll
neither hear men for God's sake, nor fear of the world, nor importunateness, ..."
4. The Ethics of Confucius: The Sayings of the Master and His Disciples Upon by Confucius, Miles Menander Dawson (1915)
"Such frequency is indicative of importunateness, and importunateness is inconsistent
with reverence. Nor should they be at distant intervals. ..."
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