importunity

noun4

1. •
   Constant and insistent demanding or proposing, especially if regarded as annoying or upsetting; also, the character of such behaviour; (countable) an instance of this.

   • Of a suretie, it is a ioyfull thynge to reioyce in the chyldhode of chyldren, but it is a ryght cruel thing to suffre the importunities of their mothers. — 1531
2. •
   (no longer used) Persistence in behaviour; determination, perseverance, stubbornness.

   • [S]uch vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs, with tickling importunity—best to sweep them away at a dash: […] — 1862
3. •
   (no longer used) The quality of being annoying or troublesome; difficulty, trouble; (countable) an instance of this.

   • [V]ery often the Importunity and Violence of the Cough vvas to be appeased by Elixir Asthmaticum, Diacodium, &c. — 1750
4. •
   (no longer used) The fact of being at an inappropriate or unsuitable time; unseasonableness.

   • Speake not, where there is no audyence: and poure not forth wyszdome out of tyme, at an importunyte. — 1535