Meanings
adjectiveimportunable (comparative more importunable, superlative most importunable)
comparative more importunable · superlative most importunable
- obsoleteHeavy; 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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