Importunity Definition

Importunity Sentence Examples

• But their importunity made a hermitage in Paris impossible; a graceless friend even surprised the philosopher in bed at eleven in the morning meditating and taking notes.

• Calvin, on his way to Basel for a life of study, touched at Geneva, and by the importunity of Farel was there detained to become the leader of the Genevan Reformation.

• Three years later, he resolved even to give to him the precedence in the succession instead of Musa, yielding to the importunity of Khaizoran, the mother of the two princes, and to his own predilection.

• Constantius decided to yield to the importunity of his brother Constans, who had succeeded Constantine II.

• President Lincoln executed the draft with all possible justice and forbearance, but refused every importunity to postpone it.