urgent+solicitation

  • 61wheedling — Synonyms and related words: adulation, adulatory, allurement, bland, blandishing, blandishment, blarney, blarneying, bunkum, buttery, buttonholing, cajolement, cajolery, cajoling, coaxing, compliment, complimentary, conning, courtierly, courtly,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 62plea — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. request, petition; assertion, allegation, advocation, advocacy; pretext, pretense, subterfuge, feint, blind; excuse, vindication. See lawsuit. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [An appeal] Syn. overture, request …

    English dictionary for students

  • 63entreaty — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. petition, supplication, plea; see appeal 1 , request . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. plea, appeal, supplication, solicitation, prayer, bid, cry, request, petition, imploration. III (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun An earnest… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 64supplication — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. entreaty, prayer, suit, petition; see appeal 1 , request . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. request, prayer, petition, pleading, appeal, entreaty, solicitation, application, plea, cry, begging. III (Roget s Thesaurus II)… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 65Request — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Request >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 request request requisition Sgm: N 1 claim claim &c.(demand) 741 Sgm: N 1 petition petition suit prayer Sgm: N 1 begging letter begging letter roun …

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  • 66instant — [15] Latin instāre meant ‘be present’ (it was a compound verb formed from the prefix in ‘upon’ and stāre ‘stand’). Its present participle instāns was used adjectivally for ‘present’, and hence by extension for ‘urgent’. The latter was actually… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 67prayer — prayer, suit, plea, petition, appeal mean an earnest and usually a formal request for something and their corresponding intransitive verbs pray, sue, plead, petition, appeal mean to make such a request. Prayer and pray imply that the request is… …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 68importunate — im•por•tu•nate [[t]ɪmˈpɔr tʃə nɪt[/t]] adj. 1) overly urgent or persistent in solicitation 2) troublesome • Etymology: 1520–30 im•por′tu•nate•ly, adv …

    From formal English to slang

  • 69importunate — /ɪmˈpɔtʃənət/ (say im pawchuhnuht) adjective 1. urgent or persistent in solicitation. 2. pertinacious, as solicitations or demands. 3. troublesome. {importun(e) + ate1} –importunately, adverb –importunateness, noun …

  • 70importunity — Pressing solicitation; urgent request; application for a claim or favor which is urged with troublesome frequency or pertinacity …

    Black's law dictionary