importunable

adj

importunable

adj

Etymology From importune + -able?

1

Obsolete Heavy; insupportable.

  • [N]o ſooner vvere they left to ſtand vpon their ovvne baſis, but that they felt the vveight of their done vvrongs too importunable for them any longer to beare; […]1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Henrie the Eight of that Name, […]”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] […]), paragraph 3, page 754, column 1:

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