29 April 2015

importunate

[im-pawr-chuh-nit]

adjective
1. urgent or persistent in solicitation, sometimes annoyingly so.
2. pertinacious, as solicitations or demands.
3. troublesome; annoying:
importunate demands from the children for attention.

Origin of importunate
1520-1530; importune (adj.) + -ate1

Related forms
importunately, adverb
importunateness, noun
unimportunate, adjective
unimportunately, adverb
unimportunateness, noun

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Examples from the web for importunate
– The palace was fairly besieged all day by importunate persons appealing for some last favor before the curtain drops.
– Willy gives away his meager inheritance to the needy and importunate.

Anagram

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Today’s aphorism

Enjoy the little things in life because one day you`ll look back and realize they were the big things.

– Kurt Vonnegut Jr

On this day

29 April 711 – Islamic conquest of Hispania as Moorish forces led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land on Gibraltar in preparation for the invasion of Spain.

29 April 1770 – Captain James Cook names Botany Bay after landing there on this day.

29 April 1910 – British Parliament passes ‘The People’s Budget’, the first budget in British history that is aimed at redistributing wealth to all.

29 April 1945 – the Dacchau concentration camp near Munich is liberated by US forces.

29 April 1967 – Muhammad Ali stripped of his boxing title after refusing, on religious grounds, being drafted into the Army.

29 April 1980 – death of Alfred Hitchcock, English movie producer and director.