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urgent request; incessant or frequent application; troublesome pertinacity. O'ercome with importunity and tears. Milton.

To ask with earnestness or importunity; to ask with submission or humility; to beg; to entreat; to beseech; to implore. I crave your honor's pardon. Shak. Joseph . . . went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus. Mark xv. 43.

To talk with vehemence, importunity, or reiteration; to bluster. [Low]

sly or indefatigably; to chase with a dog or dogs; to worry, as if by dogs; to hound with importunity. I have been pursued, dogged, and waylaid. Pope. Your sins will dog you, pursue you. Burroughs. Eager ill-bred petitioners, who do not so properly supplicate as hunt the person whom they address to, dogging him from pl…

Importunity; urgent demand. [Archaic] Carlyle.

Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift.

bruising. Hence; To produce exasperation, soreness, or grief; to offend by oppression or importunity. This grated harder upon the hearts of men. South.

To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out. [Troops] harassed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon. Nature oppressed and harass'd out with care. Addison. Vext with lawyer…

Importunity; solicitation. [Obs.] At our importance hither is he come. Shak.

With urgency or importunity; earnestly; pressingly. "They besought him instantly." Luke vii. 4.

To offer with unreasonable importunity; to urge unduly or against the will. Milton.

Importunity; earnestness. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

To overcome by importunity. Johnson.

ntment of; to tranquillize; as, to pacify a man when angry; to pacify pride, appetite, or importunity. "Pray ye, pacify yourself." Shak.

To harass with importunity; to pursue with persistent solicitations; to annoy. Johnson.

To try to force (something upon some one); to urge or inculcate with earnestness or importunity; to enforce; as, to press divine truth on an audience. He pressed a letter upon me within this hour. Dryden. Be sure to press upon him every motive. Addison.

The act of soliciting; earnest request; persistent asking; importunity.

To urge with importunity; to press; as, to strain a petition or invitation. Note, if your lady strain his entertainment. Shak.

To vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb, or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery; to plague. Cowper. He . . . suffered them to tease him into acts directly opposed to his strongest inclinations. Macaulay.

To go too far; to put any one to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude; as, to trespass upon the time or patience of another.