importunately

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.01 in modern English

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adv

"'I suppose I must see who it is', she thought, and set her chair in motion. The chair, like the music, was worked by machinery and it rolled her to the other side of the room where the bell still rang importunately."

Etymology tree English importunate Middle English -ly English -ly English importunately From importunate + -ly.

more importunately (comparative) most importunately (superlative)

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Etymology tree English importunate Middle English -ly English -ly English importunately From importunate + -ly.

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