Importunate - Law Dictionary Search Results
Flagitate
To importune to demand fiercely or with passion
Importunity
The quality of being importunate pressing or pertinacious solicitation urgent request incessant or frequent application troublesome pertinacity
Importunacy
The quality of being importunate importunateness
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coerce
coerce co·erced co·erc·ing : to subject (a person) to coercion compare importune, solicit
solicit
ask, induce, advise, or command (a person) to do something and esp. to commit a crime compare coerce, importune 3 : to attempt to persuade (a person) to purchase something 4 : to attempt to bring about
Crave
To ask with earnestness or importunity to ask with submission or humility to beg to entreat to beseech to implore
Harass
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
Pacify
excitement or resentment of to tranquillize as to pacify a man when angry to pacify pride appetite or importunity
Solicitation
The act of soliciting earnest request persistent asking importunity
At the instance of
behest of, or at the solicitation of.' The word 'instance' as a verb means 'to urge, entreat urgently, importune.' The meaning of the phrase 'at the instance of' as given in Random House Dictionary of the English
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