urgent+solicitation
71importunity — Pressing solicitation; urgent request; application for a claim or favor which is urged with troublesome frequency or pertinacity …
72instant — [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… …
73instance — [in′stəns] n. [ME instaunce < OFr instance < L instantia, a standing upon or near, being present < instans: see INSTANT] 1. Archaic an urgent plea; persistent solicitation 2. an example; case; illustration 3. a step in proceeding;… …
