importuning
English edit
Verb edit
importuning
- present participle and gerund of importune
Noun edit
importuning (plural importunings)
- The act by which somebody is importuned; pleading harassment.
- 2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 185:
- She should never have married him, never have yielded to his importunings, never have weakened in her determination to provide for herself and her son.