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Definition of Of import
1. Adjective. Of great significance or value. "The important questions of the day"
Attributes: Importance
Also: Essential, Important, Significant, Valuable
Similar to: All Important, All-important, Crucial, Essential, Of The Essence, Alpha, Beta, Big, Burning, Cardinal, Central, Fundamental, Key, Primal, Chief, Main, Master, Primary, Principal, Consequential, Eventful, Copernican, Distinguished, Grand, Grave, Grievous, Heavy, Weighty, Great, Outstanding, Historic, In-chief, Measurable, Most-valuable, Serious, Strategic
Derivative terms: Importance
Antonyms: Unimportant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Of Import
Literary usage of Of import
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... and, when all of import had been utter'd to his son, Moved back and sate him
down. Meriones, The gallant follower of Idomeneus, Fifth for the race, ..."
2. A History of the Inquisition of Spain by Henry Charles Lea (1906)
"... can only be appreciated through a knowledge of the elaborate system of import
and export duties and prohibitions of import and export which characterize ..."
3. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1882)
"Subject continued • The Negative Use of Import and Export Statistics ....
231 VIII.—Subject continued : Other Uses of Import and Export Statistics. ..."
4. History of Domestic and Foreign Commerce of the United States by Emory Richard Johnson, Thurman William Van Metre, Grover Gerhardt Huebner, David Scott Hanchet (1922)
"The four purposes of import duties, 57. Export duties, 59. Bounties, 60.
Inspection laws, 62. Embargoes, 63. Tonnage duties, 63. ..."
5. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament (1906)
"Copy of Statement of the Rates of Import Duties levied in European Countries,
Egypt, the United States, Japan, China, and Persia, upon the Produce and ..."