importunity

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
importunity
    n 1: insistent solicitation and entreaty; "his importunity left
         me no alternative but to agree" [syn: {importunity},
         {urgency}, {urging}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Importunity \Im`por*tu"ni*ty\, n.; pl. {Importunities}. [L.
   importunitas unsuitableness, rudeness: cf. F.
   importunit['e].]
   The quality of being importunate; pressing or pertinacious
   solicitation; urgent request; incessant or frequent
   application; troublesome pertinacity.
   [1913 Webster]

         O'ercome with importunity and tears.     --Milton.
   [1913 Webster]
from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
IMPORTUNITY. Urgent solicitation, with troublesome frequency and 
pertinacity. 
     2. Wills and devises are sometimes set aside in consequence of the 
importunity of those who have procured them. Whenever the importunity is 
such as to deprive the devisor of the freedom, of his will, the devise 
becomes fraudulent and void. Dane's Ab. ch. 127, a. 14, s. 5, 6, 7; 2 
Phillim. R. 551, 2.
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
25 Moby Thesaurus words for "importunity":
      blandishment, buttonholing, cajolement, cajolery, coaxing,
      demandingness, dunning, exigency, importunacy, importunateness,
      insistence, nagging, persistence, pertinaciousness, pertinacity,
      pestering, plaguing, plying, pressing, pressingness, pressure,
      teasing, urgency, urging, wheedling
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